Purpose –This study investigates how institutional quality in developed markets moderate the relationship between the strategic assets (SAs) and the inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) coming from emerging markets (EM) firms. Design/methodology/approach – The authors build upon resource based theory and institutional theory to investigate the impacts of Institutional frameworks on the strategic asset seeking (SAS) IFDI from China in 31 developed countries (OECD) for a period from 2013-2018. A stepwise general linear regression is used to test the hypothesis. The study uses process macros to validate the moderation results obtained from regression modelling. We also conduct multiple robustness tests to ensure that the data is free from idiosyncrasies related to time series data. Findings – The results demonstrate that the institutional quality in developed countries is not associated with inward FDI from China; however, it negatively moderates the relationship between SAs and IFDI. The results also indicate that IFDI from China is strongly associated with SAs and insignificantly associated with natural resource endowments in host countries. Practical Implications – The study has managerial implications for EM firm’s SAS drive during the current wave of anti-globalization. Originality/value – The role of institutional quality on IFDI disaggregated by the sectors of the economy is least understood in literature. Our study attempts to bridge this gap by bringing a cross sectional view of Institutional quality at various levels— while interacting with SAS IFDI, at a time, when the World is heading towards de-globalization.

Past studies have focused on organizational use of social media (SM) for service delivery, publicity and public relations, but, how can a public sector organization influence the country’s politics through the use of SM is unknown in literature. Drawing on the theory of Organizational Impression Management (IM) and the concept of authoritarian legacies, this study investigates that how a public sector security organization (Pakistani military) linked with country’s authoritarian past can use the Social Media Activists (SMAs) to influence citizen’s political participation. A random sampling (n=407) technique was used while conducting the survey. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypothesis, which demonstrate that the SM user’s connectedness with the military aligned SMAs is significant and positively associates with their voting realignments and online political participation. The results also indicate that the offline political participation compliments online political participation and political disposition positively relates with online political participation. Our study introduces a new conceptual construct of SMAs aligned with authoritarian legacies and test it empirically. The study adds new prospects for the use of organizational IM theory in relation to the digital media, politics and authoritarianism.