1 Working Paper IIMK/WPS/180/SM/2015/16 March/2015 Institutional traction: how state owned enterprises can harness their position from their institutional context? Anubha Sekhar Sinha 1 Sougata Ray 2 Preet S. Aulakh 3 1 Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India, email: anubha@iimk.ac.in 2 Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India 3 York University, Toronto