2020 Academy of International Business (AIB), Specialized Paper Development Workshop | International Business in Ireland: Advancing our Knowledge through Best Practice: From Constraints to Co-evolution | Strategic Choice, Environment, Resources and Firm-Institutional Interaction as Determinants of Firm Performance in Emerging Markets - Empirical Evidence from Multinational Corporations in China

2020 Academy of International Business (AIB), Specialized Paper Development Workshop | International Business in Ireland: Advancing our Knowledge through Best Practice: From Constraints to Co-evolution | Strategic Choice, Environment, Resources and Firm-Institutional Interaction as Determinants of Firm Performance in Emerging Markets – Empirical Evidence from Multinational Corporations in China | Presented by Ulf Bosch as invited speaker | Peer-reviewed academic paper submitted, presented and discussed | Breakout session hosted by Prof. Dr. Klaus E. Meyer (Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario) on November 13th, 2020 | Organizing Committee - Dr. Kieran Conroy (Queen’s Management School) and Dr. Sinéad Monaghan (Trinity Business School) | Academic abstract: This research focusses on strategic choices MNCs have available when interacting with institutions. How do MNCs choose to respond to institutions, e.g. contesting, conforming, collaborating, or co-creating? What do MNCs say that they do, how do they actually interact and how do they succeed by doing so? The paper is based on typology-driven theorizing and provides a theoretical contribution by disentangling the relationship between generic strategy and institutional strategy incorporating the notion of co-evolution.