The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of institutional distance on foreign-owned subsidiary development. In particular, a distinction between direct and indirect effects of formal and informal institutional distance is proposed and empirically tested. Based on a bespoke census...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This paper broadens the conceptualization of MNC knowledge management to include the importance of active involvement in a liaison role by host country nationals (HCNs), particularly those working directly to with expatriates. Based on our field research and work experience in international...

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...