HENISZ, Witold J <br/><br/>
Uncertainty, imitation, and plan location :  japanese multinational corporations, 1990-1996 

 -  2001 
<br/><br/> In a study of a sample of 2,705 international plant location decisions by listed Japanese multinational corporations across a possible set of 155 countries in the 1990-1996 period, we use neoinstitutional theory and research on political institutions to explain organizational entry into new geographic markets. We extend neoinstitutional theory`s proposition that prior decisions and  actions by other organizations provide legitimization and information to a decision marked by uncertainty, showing that this effect holds when the uncertainty comes from a firm`s lack of experience in a market byt not when the uncertainty derives from the structure of a market`s policymaking apparatus