{"title":"State ownership and Chinese private firms’ OFDI in developed economies","authors":"En Xie , Fanshu Li , Zhan Wu , Vikas Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101534","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study applies multiple logics based on institutional theory to explain how state ownership influences Chinese firms’ outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). A sample of Chinese listed private firms is used to understand which logic dominates the relationship between Chinese private firms’ state ownership and their OFDI in developed economies (OFDI-in-DE). We find that state ownership depresses Chinese private firms’ OFDI-in-DE, supporting the institution-(in)compatible logic, and that government subsidies weaken this negative effect, while negative media coverage of these firms strengthens it. The findings imply that the institution-incompatible logic dominates the influence of state ownership on Chinese private firms’ OFDI-in-DE.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of World Business","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109095162400018X","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The study applies multiple logics based on institutional theory to explain how state ownership influences Chinese firms’ outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). A sample of Chinese listed private firms is used to understand which logic dominates the relationship between Chinese private firms’ state ownership and their OFDI in developed economies (OFDI-in-DE). We find that state ownership depresses Chinese private firms’ OFDI-in-DE, supporting the institution-(in)compatible logic, and that government subsidies weaken this negative effect, while negative media coverage of these firms strengthens it. The findings imply that the institution-incompatible logic dominates the influence of state ownership on Chinese private firms’ OFDI-in-DE.
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