This paper attempts to extend information-processing theory so that it can be meaningfully applied to MNCs. A specific multidimensional framework is developed that can be used to measure the information-processing capacities of macro-level features of MNC organizational design. An applied...

This paper examines the type and level of control exercised by the parent headquarters of 50 U.S., UK, and European multinational corporations over their foreign subsidiaries. Pattern of control in the 3 national groups differ in significant ways, and these differences seem to have important...