Linking Theory and Context: 'Strategy Research in Emerging Economies' after Wright et al. (2005)

Emerging economies provide a laboratory for investigating the interaction between firm strategies and local contexts. Mike Wright and colleagues have shaped this research agenda by creating legitimacy for this line of research, and by outlining how research in four types of strategy contexts can adv...

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Published in:Journal of management studies 2013-11, Vol.50 (7), p.1322-1346
Main Authors: Xu, Dean, Meyer, Klaus E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
contexts
emerging economies
Emerging markets
Institutionalism
literature review
Management science
Management theory
Organization theory
Organizational learning
Periodicals
Spillovers
Strategic management
strategy research
Studies
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Summary:Emerging economies provide a laboratory for investigating the interaction between firm strategies and local contexts. Mike Wright and colleagues have shaped this research agenda by creating legitimacy for this line of research, and by outlining how research in four types of strategy contexts can advance theories. We assess how this agenda has progressed in eight leading journals in the past decade, particularly during the five years following their review, with the aims to identify broad trends of theorizing, and to outline future research challenges. Emerging economy contexts challenge some of the assumptions of theories originally developed for markets that are relatively stable and efficient. Researchers have advanced several theoretical perspectives by addressing these challenges. Wright and colleagues focused on institutional theory as a major foundation for such work, and we find it continuing to be the most popular theoretical perspective. In addition, new perspectives have emerged, focusing on learning, relationships, real options, and spillovers as focal concepts for theorizing.
ISSN:0022-2380
1467-6486
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01051.x