Revisiting Institutional Voids: Advancing the International Business Literature by Leveraging Social Sciences
从政治学、发展经济学、法学和人类学中汲取理论，揭示管理文献中关于制度空白的隐含假设，提出修正后的假设和八个理论构念，为国际商业学者提供新的研究方向。
Institutions are vital for solving collective action problems and enabling functioning markets. Based on this notion, the institutional voids literature has offered a dynamic research agenda for international business scholarship. In this perspective article, we leverage work from political science, development economics, legal studies, and anthropology to: (a) expose hidden assumptions about institutional voids in the management literature; (b) propose new directions for research based on our revised assumptions; and (c) provide direction-specific theoretical constructs from other social sciences to stimulate theory-building and empirical inquiry into institutional voids. We develop a framework that identifies four revised assumptions about institutional voids research that we derive from current studies and elaborate on eight theoretical constructs from other social sciences that exemplify the revised assumptions and generate future research questions for international business scholars.