Subsidiary staffing and initiative‐taking in multinational corporations

The Effect of International Staffing Practices on Subsidiary Staff Retention in Multinational Corporations

This paper contributes to the scarce body of research on employee turnover in multinational corporations’ foreign subsidiaries and addresses some key issues related to dealing with turnover of local staff. Based on a literature review, I conceptualize locals’ perceived career prospects and their organizational identification as key variables mediating the relationship between international staf...

Subsidiary exploration and the innovative performance of large multinational corporations

This study identifies two categories of exploration for competence-creating subsidiaries of contemporary multinational corporations (MNCs) by taking both the subsidiary’s and the MNC’s existing knowledge into consideration. While subsidiary exploration not new to the MNC (SE1) brings in knowledge that is only new to the focal subsidiary but not new to the rest of the MNC, subsidiary exploration...

Agency Theory and Resource Dependency Theory: Complementary Explanations for Subsidiary Power in Multinational Corporations

In Bridging IB theories, constructs, and methods across cultures and social sciences

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Knowledge Flows Within Multinational Corporations: Explaining Subsidiary Isolation and Its Performance Implications

Applying a new theoretical and empirical approach to intrafirm knowledge transfers, this paper provides some initial insight to the little-researched phenomenon of why some subsidiaries are isolated from knowledge-transfer activities within the multinational corporation (MNC). Knowledge transfer is framed as a problemistic search process initiated by the recipient unit. We show that knowledge f...