Question pool with week 1-3 articles
CCS course 2023
Articles covered.
Week 1
Varieties of Capitalism and institutional comparative advantage: A test and reinterpretation
o by Michael A. Witt & Gregory Jackson
Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries
o by Stav Fainshmidt a, William Q. Judge b, Ruth V. Aguilera c e, Adam Smith d
Comparing capitalisms: understanding institutional diversity and its implications for
international business
o by Gregory Jackson & Richard Deeg
Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: a taxonomy and implications for
varieties of capitalism and business systems research
o by Michael A Witt, Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro, Kenneth Amaeshi, Sami Mahroum,
Dorothee Bohle, Lawrence Saez
Week 2
The construct of institutional distance through the lens of different institutional perspectives:
Review, analysis, and recommendations
o by Tatiana Kostova, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, W. Richard Scott, Vincent E. Kunst, Chei Hwee
Chua & Marc van Essen
National institutional systems, foreign ownership and firm performance: The case of
understudied countries
o by Michael Carney, Saul Estrin, Zhixiang Liang, Daniel Shapiro
The Impact of the Home Country on Internationalization
o by Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Yadong Luo, Ravi Ramamurti, Siah Hwee Ang
From Typology to Taxonomy: A Configurational Analysis of National Business Systems and their
Explanatory Power
o by Jasper J. Hotho
Week 3
The Uppsala internationalization process model revisited: From liability of foreignness to
liability of outsidership
o by Jan Johanson and Jan-Erik Vahlne
Clarifying the relationships between institutions and global strategy
o by Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Ram Mudambi, Torben Pedersen
The Interrelationships Among Informal Institutions, Formal Institutions, and Inward Foreign
Direct Investment
o by R. Michael Holmes, Jr., Toyah Miller, Michael A. Hitt, and M. Paz Salmador
Multinational enterprises’ risk mitigation strategies in emerging markets: A political coalition
perspective
o by Ying Zhu, Deepak Sardana
, Questions:
1. What is the "Varieties of Capitalism" framework, and who are its main
proponents?
2. How do Witt and Jackson test and reinterpret the Varieties of Capitalism
framework in their article?
3. What is the "institutional comparative advantage" concept, and how is it related to
the Varieties of Capitalism framework?
4. What is the main argument of Fainshmidt et al.'s article on "Varieties of
institutional systems"?
5. What are some of the understudied countries examined in Fainshmidt et al.'s
article?
6. How do Jackson and Deeg compare different institutional systems in their article?
7. What is the significance of institutional diversity for international business,
according to Jackson and Deeg?
8. What is the taxonomy developed by Witt et al. in their article on mapping business
systems?
9. What are some of the implications of Witt et al.'s taxonomy for research on
varieties of capitalism and business systems?
10. What is institutional distance, and how do different institutional perspectives
frame it, according to Kostova et al.'s article?
11. How do informal institutions, formal institutions, and inward foreign direct
investment relate to each other, according to Holmes et al.'s article?
12. What is the "liability of outsidership" concept, and how does it relate to the
Uppsala internationalization process model, according to Johanson and Vahlne's
article?
13. What is the main argument of Cuervo-Cazurra et al.'s article on the impact of the
home country on internationalization?
14. How do national business systems differ from each other, according to Hotho's
article?
15. What is the Uppsala internationalization process model, and how has it been
revised over time?
16. What is the relationship between institutions and global strategy, according to
Cuervo-Cazurra et al.'s article?
17. What are multinational enterprises' risk mitigation strategies in emerging markets,
according to Zhu and Sardana's article?
18. How do political coalitions factor into multinational enterprises' risk mitigation
strategies in emerging markets?
19. How do institutional systems and foreign ownership impact firm performance in
understudied countries, according to Carney et al.'s article?
20. What are some of the implications of institutional diversity for international
business strategy and decision-making?
