...Hasan Tutar Purpose This paper aims to examine how institutional voids, Environmental, Social and Governance ( ESG ) pressures and sustainability paradoxes intersect in Latin American global value chains (GVCs). It develops a multilevel framework to explain how institutional void configurations...

... they generate. This scenario consolidates their position in a limited income and dependent on rules defined by more powerful actors (Mishra and Dey, 2018). Global value chains Institutional voids Informality Power asymmetries Latin America Amazon Global value chains (GVCs) facilitate...

...Umair Shafi Choksy; Morgan Gladwell; Stephan Gerschewski; Maaha Fatima Jawad Purpose This paper aims to examine how entrepreneurs respond to institutional voids across Asia and Africa. While prior research has documented how entrepreneurs compensate for institutional voids in emerging economies...

...Túlio Josué Pinheiro dos Santos; Bruno Anicet Bittencourt; Mikaela Floriano; Laura Grippa Ryzewski Purpose The study aims to investigate how institutional voids influence the formation and the implementation of sustainability practices by Brazilian suppliers in the textile sector. Design...

... regulations Quality standards Sustainability paradox Original equipment manufacturing Institutional voids Contextual environment Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia UID/00731/2025 Financial support from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (through project UID/00731/2025: Research...

...Pooja Thakur-Wernz; Aliaa Bassiouny; Maha ElShinnawy Purpose Drawing on institutional theory and the institutional voids perspective, this study aims to examine how family ownership enables small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt to navigate weak formal institutions and pursue growth...

...Raghda El Ebrashi; Menatallah Darrag; Salma Tosson; Amira Aldibiki; Florian Becker-Ritterspach Purpose This study aims to explore how MNCs from different market economies perceive and respond to institutional voids in emerging markets. Specifically, it examines whether and why multinational...

... of international business strategy by developing a framework and six propositions. The theoretical distinction of informal institutions as an additional aspect when disrupting formal institutional voids are instrumental in developing a refined understanding of how MNCs can respond to institutional voids...

... by their business activities in emerging and developing economies. Design/methodology/approach This paper transposes the market-related concept of institutional voids to the context of CER, that is, to the context of exacerbated negative environmental externalities as result of absent, weak or incoherent...

... entrepreneurship (IE) in emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach The authors combine IB’s concept of institutional voids with comparative capitalism’s insights into the institutional embeddedness of firm capabilities and IE. This theoretical cross-fertilisation is instrumental in developing a refined...

... Business systems Institutional voids Economic growth Second, within the comparative‐capitalisms literature the possibility that institutions can act not just as hindrances, but as “beneficial constraints” (Streeck, 1997 ; Djankov et al., 2006, p. 396) is incorporated into analyses...