Ayse Saka-Helmhout

TL;DR: A review and synthesis of existing research on institutional voids, tracking the evolution of institutional void scholarship since the inception of the concept, can be found in this article, where the authors highlight four different strategies for responding to them: internalization, substitution, borrowing and signaling.

TL;DR: A review and synthesis of existing research on institutional voids, tracking the evolution of institutional void scholarship since the inception of the concept, can be found in this article, where the authors highlight four different strategies for responding to them: internalization, substitution, borrowing and signaling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed solutions to two recurring problems in cross-national research: response style differences and language bias, and conducted a methodological comparison of two different response formats, rating and ranking, to evaluate the validity of presenting respondents with short scenarios for which they need to rank their top 3 solutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct an in-depth comparative case study of a headquarters-initiated knowledge transfer at two subsidiaries of the same multinational enterprise, and demonstrate that social interaction is a prerequisite for subsidiary absorptive capacity as it enables employees to participate in the transformation of new knowledge to the local context and the development of local applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions that enable actors to engage in strategic action despite institutional pressures towards statis are investigated. But the authors focus on one example of agency, subsidiary efforts to change product formulations that are successfully developed by the headquarters.