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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

How will managerial perceptions concerning specific dimensions of legal system uncertainty affect wholly owned foreign subsidiary (WOFS) political tie intensity? This study employs the institution-based view of international business strategy to explore how managerial perceptions of specific dimensions of legal system uncertainty – ex-ante commercial law inadequacy and ex-post judicial arbitrariness – will act as determinants of WOFS political tie intensity. Our analysis of 181 WOFSs in the Philippines suggests that managerial perceptions of ex-ante commercial law inadequacy and ex-post judicial arbitrariness, being two distinct dimensions of legal system uncertainty, are determinants of political tie intensity. We also find that the positive association between managerial perceptions of ex-ante commercial law inadequacy and the intensification of political ties grows stronger when a WOFS is committed to organizational adaptation of capabilities to the local context, while the positive association between managerial perceptions of ex-post judicial arbitrariness and the intensification of political ties grows stronger when a WOFS is engaged in strategically positioning operations in an emerging market environment.

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