Corruption in a multinational context: Two essays.

摘要

This dissertation is comprised of two essays examining the common theme of corruption in a multinational context. It focuses on the strategic and ethics implications that arise at the intersection of business and corruption. This research sheds light on how multinational firms respond to home and host country corruption norms and the complexity firms create by both shaping and being affected by such norms. This dissertation responds to the call for interdisciplinary research by Cheng, Henisz, & Roth (2009) in the study of international business by integrating resource-based view in nonmarket strategy, neo-institutional theory in international business, and business ethics and law in contributing to a comprehensive understanding of corruption.;The first essay examines whether firms' home country corruption norms affect their location choice in foreign expansions, how firms' bribery experiences work as a nonmarket capability in influencing their foreign expansion strategy, and how bribery ultimately affects firms' market performance. This research is unique empirically by using a dataset with accurate bribery data at the firm level.;The second essay examines strategies to control corruption in a multinational context through examining the normative standard to apply among communities with various corruption norms, and proposes a context-based anti-corruption strategy. It draws from literature on extraterritorial anti-corruption restrictions, Integrative Social Contract Theory (ISCT), mediating institutions theory and industry leaders' roles in systemic risks, and discusses how a firm from one community can practically fit in another community of different corruption norm or size to maintain both universal principles of justice and diversity among people who need mediating institutions to give meaning and understanding to universal principles. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).