Subsidiary strategic influence: the role of subsidiary attention-building activities

Expatriate Knowledge Transfer, Subsidiary Absorptive Capacity, and Subsidiary Performance

In this study, we theoretically identify three dimensions of expatriate competenciesability, motivation, and opportunity seeking—for knowledge transfer. Integrating the ability-motivation-opportunity framework and the absorptive capacity perspective, we propose that expatriate competencies in knowledge transfer influence a subsidiary's performance through the knowledge received by the subsidiar...

Subsidiary Types, Activities, and Location: an Empirical Investigation

Determining Factors of Subsidiary Development

Subsidiary development is a multi-dimensional construct that cannot be captured just by looking at subsidiary roles, activities, etc. Three distinct dimensions of subsidiary development are identified and these are: scope of subsidiary (the breadth of activities), level of subsidiary competence (the depth of activities) and level of integration in the internal MNC-network. Birkinshaw and Hood (...

Multinational Ownership and Subsidiary Investment

This paper examines how foreign ownership affects the investment decisions of subsidiary firms using a new dataset of listed-parent − listed-subsidiary pairs. We find that improvements in the investment opportunities of parent firms have a negative effect on the investment of their subsidiaries, after controlling for the investment opportunities of the subsidiary, which can be independently obs...

Developing subsidiary contribution to the MNC—Subsidiary entrepreneurship and strategy creativity

Article history: Received 28 January 2009 Received in revised form 8 March 2010 Accepted 9 March 2010 Available online 14 October 2010 Despite its theoretical and managerial significance, subsidiary entrepreneurship and its effects on subsidiary contribution remain underexplored in the literature. We propose that subsidiary entrepreneurship encourages more creative strategic responses to escala...