Multinational enterprise regional management centres: Characteristics and performance

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• 作者：Dwarka Chakravarty ^{dchakravarty.phd@ivey.ca} ; Ying-Ying Hsieh ^{yhsieh.phd@ivey.ca} ; Andreas P.J. Schotter ; ^{aschotter@ivey.ca} ; Paul W. Beamish ^{pbeamish@ivey.ca}
• 关键词：MNE evolution ; Multinational enterprise ; Regional headquarters ; Regional management centres ; Theory of the MNE ; Regionalization
• 刊名：Journal of World Business
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：52
• 期：2
• 页码：296-311
• 全文大小：1360 K
• 卷排序：52

文摘

In multinational enterprises (MNEs), regional management centres (RMCs) most frequently take the form of either dedicated regional headquarters (RHQs) or regional management mandates (RMMs) assigned to operating subsidiaries. We identify a series of critical differences in characteristics and performance between RHQs and RMMs, using a longitudinal sample of 855 Japanese RMCs across 41 countries. We also investigate parent-level differences between MNEs with distinct RMC configurations. We propose a structural complement to regional strategy extensions of the integration-responsiveness framework, and provide an important large sample baseline, aiding new theoretical and empirical research into MNE regional management strategy and structure.