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...

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...

The current state of the law fails to provide clear guidance to directors of wholly owned, financially troubled ("WOFT") subsidiaries regarding to whom their fiduciary duties run. Directors of solvent wholly owned subsidiaries can act in the best interests of their parent corporation with little...

The aim of this paper is to identify and explain how different forms of local linkages vary across different patterns of global workflow interdependence in MNC subsidiaries' product development activities. Both global workflow interdependence and local linkages are essential for innovating and...

This paper investigates the role Regional Headquarters (RHQs) play in large multinationals. It investigates if the establishment of a RHQ creates “hierarchy benefits” to the firm that are in line with eh M-form principles. Based on rich qualitative data that we collected for nine different...

Early research on RKT (Reverse Knowledge Transfer: knowledge transfer from subsidiary to headquarter) in MNCs focused predominantly on key factors affecting RKT. Although knowledge transfer is a process in which an organization re-creates and maintains a complex, causally ambiguous set of...