Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: Firm-Level Implications of State Equity Purchases
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...…theory, state ownership is incompatible with innovation (Shleifer, 1998; Ramaswamy, 2001), but it overlooks the resource advantage that state ownership brings to overcome the institutional voids in emerging economies (Inoue, Lazzarini, and Musacchio, 2013; Musacchio, Lazzarini, and Aguilera, 2015)....
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...But governments as minority owners generally relinquish major decision-making power to the private owners, who employ pay-for-performance incentive practices and close monitoring systems to reduce agency problems (Inoue, Lazzarini, and Musacchio, 2013)....
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...…Administration, University of Missouri–St. Louis 3 John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University advantage (Lazzarini, 2015; Mazzucato, 2015) and how various forms of state ownership foster firms’ performance (Inoue, Lazzarini, and Musacchio, 2013; Musacchio, Lazzarini, and Aguilera, 2015)....
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...For example, Inoue, Lazzarini, and Musacchio (2013) found that minority state ownership positively affects firms’ performance in Brazil, and Lazzarini (2015) proposed a conceptual framework to discuss how governments can actively devise industrial policies to enhance firms’ competitive advantage....
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...Some hybrid SOEs, such as Brazil’s Petrobras and Vale, experience high levels of government ownership but are largely independent in their operations (Inoue et al., 2013)....
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...Clearly, state ownership and private ownership represent different institutional logics (Bruton, Ahlstrom, & Li, 2010), thus necessitating our consideration of SOEs incorporating both state and private ownership as hybrid organizations (Inoue et al., 2013)....
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...Following the earlier SOE research that appeared in top-tier journals (Inoue et al., 2013; Peng & Heath, 1996), we draw on three core managerial theories that help scholars understand all organizations to develop our understanding of hybrid SOE firms: transaction cost economics, agency theory, and…...
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...For instance, voids associated with scarce capital markets limit firms’ ability to invest in profitable projects, especially projects requiring large, fixed capital allocations with long maturity (Levine, 2005; Rajan & Zingales, 1996)....
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