Institutional voids, international learning effort and internationalization of emerging market new ventures

Adomako, Samuel, Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph, Obeng Danquah, George, Danso, Albert and Donbesuur, Francis orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-3793-802X (2019) Institutional voids, international learning effort and internationalization of emerging market new ventures. Journal of International Management, 25 (4). ISSN 1075-4253

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2019.04.001

Abstract

Much of the existing scholarly works portray institutional voids (IVs) in emerging economies as impeding forces against the development of new ventures. However, little attention has been paid to how such voids generate positive outcomes in emerging market new ventures. Drawing on the institutional theory, we propose IVs as crucial enablers of new venture internationalization. In addition, we investigate both how and when IVs enhance the degree to which new ventures internationalize by examining international learning effort (ILE) as a mediator and two domestic market environmental factors (i.e., environmental dynamism and competitive intensity) as important contingencies. We test our moderated mediation model using primary data gathered from 211 new ventures from Ghana. We found that ILE mediates the relationship between IVs and new venture internationalization and that both environmental dynamism and competitive intensity moderate the indirect relationship between home-country IVs and new venture internationalization. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of this study.


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