Institutional voids and firm's resources commitment in emerging markets: a systematic review

The impact of institutional environment on firms’ strategic decisions such as resource commitment in host country has been examined in strategy and international business literature. Yet, the current state of knowledge about how the institutional environment affects firms’ resource commitment in host country is equivocal. This paper systematically reviews the current state of the institutional voids – resource commitment literature, synthesizes extant findings and theoretical frameworks, identifies significant gaps and develops an agenda to guide future scholarship in this important domain of research. Altogether, this paper structures institutional voids and resource commitment research into salient themes to help scholars scope the field and explore value-adding avenues to further our understanding of internationalization decision