Multinational enterprises and the provision of collective goods in developing countries under formal and informal institutional voids. The case of electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Garrone, P., Piscitello, L. and D'Amelio, M. (2019) Multinational enterprises and the provision of collective goods in developing countries under formal and informal institutional voids. The case of electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of International Management, 25 (2). 100650. ISSN 1075-4253 doi: 10.1016/j.intman.2018.09.002

Abstract/Summary

Despite their unprecedented growth, developing countries still face severe problems in the provision of collective goods. Electricity, whose provision is scarce or unreliable in most developing regions, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, is an emblematic case. The reason for this shortage is not only imputable to the lack of effective formal institutions, but also to the inefficacy of informal institutions in enabling alternative solutions for the production, transmission and distribution of electricity. We claim that in this context of “double institutional void”, foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises (MNEs) can play a decisive role. However, their effectiveness depends on both the formal and informal institutional proximity between the home and the host countries. Our empirical analysis relies on panel data models run on a sample of pairs of home-host countries, the latter of which are all from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), observed from 2005 to 2011.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/79820
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.intman.2018.09.002
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > International Business and Strategy
Publisher	Elsevier
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