Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/9777
Title: The "grabbing hand" or the "helping hand" view of corruption: Evidence from bank foreign market entries
Authors: Petrou, Andreas 
Thanos, Ioannis C. 
Major Field of Science: Social Sciences
Field Category: Economics and Business
Keywords: Banking;Corruption;Foreign market commitment;Liability of foreignness;Market-seeking
Issue Date: Jul-2014
Source: Journal of World Business, 2014, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 444-454
Volume: 49
Issue: 3
Start page: 444
End page: 454
Journal: Journal of World Business 
Abstract: This study adopts a resource perspective to explore a non-linear relationship between corruption and two measures of bank foreign market commitment, the capital invested and the share of equity, on a sample of 131 bank entries in forty host countries. Our findings support a U-shaped relationship providing evidence of the "grabbing hand" view at low to moderate levels of corruption and, supporting the "helping hand" view at high levels of it. In addition, market-seeking motives are found to have a positive moderating effect on this relationship. This study contributes to the long-standing debate about the effects of corruption on FDI.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/9777
ISSN: 10909516
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2013.10.004
Rights: © Elsevier
Type: Article
Affiliation : Cyprus University of Technology 
University of Glasgow 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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