Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Risk and the strategy of foreign location choice in regulated industries

MAP20080032067

Risk and the strategy of foreign location choice in regulated industries / Esteban García-Canal, Mauro F. Guillén

Sumario: The firms in regulated industries react to macroeconomic and policy risks in sharply different ways. While they seek to avoid countries with high levels of macroeconomic uncertainty, the authors predict that they find it more attractive to expand into countries characterized by governments with discretionary policymaking capacities so as to be able to negotiate favorable conditions of entry. We also argue that firms are heterogeneous in their attitudes toward risk. We predict that firms in which the state holds a partial equity stake exhibit a more tolerant attitude. We also expect that as firms accumulate foreign experience, they develop an aversion toward further foreign entries into politically unstable markets. Support for these predictions is provided by an analysis of the Latin American market entries of all listed Spanish firms in regulated industries between 1987 and 2000

En: Strategic Management Journal. - Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 1991-2010 = ISSN 0143-2095. - 01/10/2008 Tomo 29 Número 10 - 2008, p. 1097-1115

1. Internacionalización de la empresa . 2. Multinacionales . 3. Estrategia empresarial . 4. Comercio exterior . 5. Inversiones extranjeras . 6. Iberoamérica . 7. España . I. Guillén, Mauro F. . II. Title.