This study analyzes how firms respond to institutional polycentrism, a governance system that emerges from multiple and independent centers of power that interact to determine and regulate an evolutionary overarching comprehensive social system of rules. We propose that institutional polycentrism moderates corporate entrepreneurs' decision-making processes. We conducted a case study at a multinational corporation over four decades of internationalization using process data analysis. We found that institutional polycentrism determines a calibration between causation and effectuation logics. The study offers two contributions: (a) expanding the explanatory power of institutional polycentrism by understanding how it moderates the corporate entrepreneur's decision-making process in polycentric institutional contexts and (2) proposing a relatively novel contingency dimension of the effectuation versus causation and establishing new boundary conditions of the effectuation versus causation.

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多中心制度在影响/因果逻辑与企业企业家决策过程之间的关系中的调节作用

本研究分析了企业如何应对制度性多中心主义，这是一种治理体系，它产生于多个独立的权力中心，这些权力中心相互作用以确定和规范进化的总体综合社会规则体系。我们建议制度多中心主义调节企业企业家的决策过程。我们使用流程数据分析在一家跨国公司进行了一项长达 40 年国际化的案例研究。我们发现，制度多中心主义决定了因果逻辑和结果逻辑之间的校准。该研究提供了两个贡献：（a）通过了解制度多中心主义如何缓和企业企业家来扩大其解释力。