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Subsidiary Managers’ Power and Capital Expenditure
Shao, Jun - 2015
governance mitigates the influence of subsidiary managers' informal power on capital expenditure. We conducted an empirical study … network power. We find that informal or personal power stemming from subsidiary managers' expertise and network are more … significant in influencing capital expenditure. Formal or positional power stemming from managers' hierarchical position and …
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Human Capital Measures, Strategy, and Performance : HR Managers’ Perceptions
Gates, Stephen; Langevin, Pascal - 2021
indicators). Findings – Our results confirm the following hypotheses: 1/ according to HR managers, the more advanced a company is … strategy, HR managers are interested in innovation indicators, while in those following a cost reduction strategy, HR managers … performance in HR managers’ opinion. It also shows that HR managers are conscious that HC measures should be aligned with strategy …
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Parenting Advantage in the MNC : An Embeddedness Perspective on the Value Added by Headquarters
Nell, Phillip C. - 2014
What determines the value an MNC's headquarters adds to its own affiliates? In this paper, we shed light on this question by linking the embeddedness view of the multinational corporation to the literature on parenting advantage. We test our hypotheses on an original dataset of 124 manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066166
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Management Practices in Russian Manufacturing Subsidiaries of Foreign Multinational Corporations : Challenging Some Beliefs About Contemporary Russian Industrial Management
Gurkov, Igor - 2013
I report the results of observations of management practices in 20 Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of Western multinational corporations (MNCs). I argue that to counterbalance the higher country-specific risks associated with investing in Russia, MNCs impose on their Russian subsidiaries high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074121
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Agency-Based View of Learning within the Multinational Corporation
Saka-Helmhout, Ayse - 2009
Organizational learning within the international management field is commonly understood as knowledge transfer. Context-based and actor-centred investigations into the aspects of the social system that shape the learning process have received less attention. This study highlights the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156220
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How to Combine a Group Strategy with Subsidiary Governance?
Strikwerda, J. - 2009
The traditional policy of most multinational corporations (MNC) with respect to their subsidiary boards was or even still is to reduce these boards through composition, information and superseding these through an integrated management system to the bare local legal requirements and not having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158501
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One Condition Contributing to MNCs' Global Business Success : Reverse Transfer of LMI from IJVs to MNCs
Oh, Kum-Sik - 2017
MNC managers …
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Weight versus Voice : How Foreign Subsidiaries Capture the Attention of Corporate Headquarters
Bouquet, Cyril - 2009
This paper investigates how foreign subsidiaries gain attention from corporate headquarters (HQ.) Using detailed questionnaire and archival data on 283 subsidiaries in multinational enterprises, our analysis revealed three significant findings. First, attention decisions are partially based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766813
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Subsidiary
Heaton, Sohvi - 2016
A subsidiary is defined as a company controlled by a holding company (a multinational enterprise (MNE)) and situated outside the home country of the MNE. Scholars have identified various functions of subsidiaries, including supporting the parent company's sales or production, conducting research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006557
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The Effects of Institutional Distance on Foreign-Owned Subsidiary Development : The Case of the Northwest of England
Dahms, Sven - 2015
negative effect on the level of intra- and inter-organisational relationships and decision-making autonomy in foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027113