The impact of current and founding institutions on strength of competitive aspirations in transition economies
研究了转型经济中企业当前制度环境与创始制度环境如何共同影响竞争愿望强度，发现创始制度环境会削弱企业对当前环境的适应，且制度变迁越大这种效应越强。
Abstract Northian institutional theory argues that firms adapt to their current institutional environments. Organizational imprinting theory argues that firms will be constrained by their founding institutional environments. We explore the combined influence of these two institutional environments on the strength of competitive aspirations using a unique dataset of firms in the shifted institutional environment of Central European transition economies. Our results indicate founding institutional environments temper adaptation to current institutional environments for certain competitive aspirations and this effect increases as the size of the shift between current and founding institutional environments increases. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.