Influence of institutional profiles on time to recall

Muralidharan, Etayankara; Bapuji, Hari; Laplume, André

Influence of institutional profiles on time to recall

Author

Muralidharan, Etayankara

Bapuji, Hari

Laplume, André

Date

2015

Keywords

product recall, quality of products, institutional environment, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, World Economic Forum

Abstract (summary)

This paper aims to understand why firms expedite or delay product recall decisions involving international sourcing. Design/methodology/approach: this paper combines US toy recall data from the Consumer Products Safety Commission database for the period from 1988to 2011 with World Economic Forum data on institutional environments to predict the effect the host country conditions have on recall timing decisions.

Publication Information

Muralidharan, Etayankara, Hari Bapuji, and André Laplume. "Influence of institutional profiles on time to recall." Management Research Review 38, no. 6 (2015): 605-626. doi:10.1108/MRR-12-2013-0293.