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PurposeCorporate environmental innovation (CEI) is a proactive type of response to increasing public scrutiny regarding firms' environmental performance. While past studies have overwhelmingly focused on coercive mechanisms and assumed a closed national institutional field, less attention has been given to non-coercive and transnational inter-firm mimetic mechanisms. This paper aims to investigate the joint effect of coercive isomorphic mechanisms from domestic institutions and mimetic isomorphic mechanisms from foreign multinational enterprises (MNE) on CEI adoption in domestic firms.Design/methodology/approachThe study's empirical analysis is based on data from 1,967 firms from the 2010 Korean Innovation Survey, as well as other official statistics.FindingsThis study reports the following results: the direct effects of domestic institutions on CEI adoption in domestic firms vary according to institution type; foreign MNEs have a positive effect, whether using global or local CEI strategies; and the positive effect of foreign MNEs strengthens when the stringency of domestic environmental regulation increases.Originality/valueThis paper shows that CEI diffusion is driven by both coercive institutional pressures and inter-firm mimetic mechanisms, including their joint effects. Foreign MNEs act as boundary-spanners that activate a dual isomorphic mechanism, affecting social as well as economic development in host countries. Finally, evidence of interaction between domestic coercive and transnational mimetic mechanisms supports the authors' contention that national institutional fields are increasingly interconnected.

ABSTRACTThis paper contributes to the very limited literature examining the factors determining tobacco companies' advertising strategies. The paper explores whether firms in the UK tobacco market significantly changed their advertising expenditure in the face of proposed changes to the UK and European Commission tobacco advertising legislation. The results suggest that changes in legislation have little impact on firms' advertising strategies for existing brands, but that legislative changes impact upon product launch dates. Our results also offer some information on the nature of firm interdependencies in the UK tobacco industry.

AbstractEndogenous innovation growth theory is tested by using panel data for 27 provinces across China. R&D expenditure and openness are added to the standard convergence regressions to control for different structural characteristics in each province. A standardized 't‐bar' test for unit roots is applied to examine the properties of the data and identify a long‐run relationship among the variables. By allowing for differences in the aggregate production function across regions, we find evidence of convergence. The empirical results support the endogenous innovation growth model in which regional per capita income can converge given technological diffusion, transfer and imitation. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Introduction: The Rise of Multinationals from Emerging Economies: Achieving a New Balance PART I: KEYNOTES AND PANEL SESSIONS Part I: Keynotes and Panel Sessions 1. Keynotes 2. Implications for International Business of Separatist Movements: The Case of Scottish Independence 3. Geography and History Matter: A Record of the Panel Session on International Business and Economic Geography Perspectives on the Spatial and Historical Development of Multinational Enterprises PART II: RISE OF EMNES 4. Institutions and Investments by Emerging Economy Multinationals in Developed Economies: Solar PV Firms and the Role of Political Authorities in Germany 5. Neither Western not Indian: HRM Policy in an Indian Multinational 6. Against All Odds! A Strategic Analysis of the Failures of Three State-owned Firms PART III: DMNES PERFORMANCE/SURVIVAL IN EMERGING ECONOMIES 7. Subsidiary Survival of Multinational Enterprises in China: An Analysis of Nordic firms 8. Control Position Strategy, Cultural Distance, Conflict Resolution Strategies and Performance of International Joint Ventures 9. Determinants of Foreign Firms' Collective Action in Emerging Economies: Evidence from India PART IV: COMING IN AND GOING OUT: DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN FOREIGN AND LOCAL FIRMS 10. Human Capital and Conflict Management in the Entrepreneur-Venture Capitalist Relationship: The Entrepreneurs' Perspective 11. International Joint Ventures and Dynamic Co-learning between MNEs and Local Firms 12. Industry Factors Influencing International New Ventures' Internationalisation Processes 13. Do Foreign Ownership Modes Matter for FDI Spillovers?