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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden foreign subsidiary.

1. 1. Technological Growth in the MNC : A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Advanced Foreign Subsidiaries

   Författare :Katarina Blomkvist; Ivo Zander; Rajneesh Narula; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Multinational corporation; foreign subsidiary; technology; capability emergence; capability diffusion; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; företagsekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis emphasizes the technological evolution of technologically advanced foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations, in order to examine specific and related research questions as to what is the nature of the advanced modern MNC regarding technological growth. In particular, evolutionary paths and potential limits to the development of technological capabilities at the level of individual foreign subsidiaries, and to what extent these subsidiaries serve as significant sources of technological capabilities for other actors in the multinational group are highlighted. LÄS MER

3. 2. Enter the Dragon : Toward a Micro-political View on Subsidiary Initiatives

   Författare :Alexander N. Gorgijevski; Christine Holmström; Katarina Lagerström; Jens Gammelgaard; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Multinational corporation; Subsidiary initiatives; Micro-political view; headquarters-subsidiary relationship; headquarters attention; initiative-selling; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Subsidiary initiatives are proactive, entrepreneurial activities that arise locally without central directives or planning from headquarters. Prior research suggests that subsidiary initiatives are crucial to multinational corporations’ (MNCs) success in foreign locations as they hold the potential to enhance local responsiveness, worldwide learning, and global integration by the leveraging of new knowledge. LÄS MER

4. 3. Asymmetry and the moderating effects of formal institutional distance on the relationship between cultural distance and performance of foreign subsidiaries in Latin America

   Författare :Henrique Correa da Cunha; Svante Andersson; Mohamed Amal; Mikael Hilmersson; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Asymmetry; institutional distance; cultural distance; subsidiary; performance; Latin America;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates how Cultural and Formal Institutional distances and their interaction affect the performance of multinational foreign subsidiaries in Latin America. It is shown that using Kogut and Singh (1988) index or attributing the positive and negative signals to distances in opposite directions fail to capture asymmetric effects as it assumes either symmetry or opposing symmetry. LÄS MER

5. 4. Four essays on subsidiary evolution : Exploring the antecedents, contexts and outcomes of mandate loss

   Författare :Edward Gillmore; Ulf Andersson; Esbjörn Segelod; Pamela Sharkey Scott; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

   Sammanfattning : The emergence of enhancement or depletion of subsidiary charters is driven by two different types of organizational units and the environment. (1) The parent is ultimately responsible for the establishment of subsidiaries and will greatly impact its evolution by involvement. (2) Evolution is also largely contingent on the subsidiary’s choice. LÄS MER

7. 5. Headquarter-subsidiary relationships in multinational corporations

   Författare :Laurent Leksell; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to describe and analyze how headquarter-subsidiary relationships are managed in multinational corporations. More specifically, based on an intensive investigation of six MNCs, this study addresses the following questions: - What systems or instruments does the MNC use to coordinate and control the activities of the foreign subsidiaries? How are these systems designed and managed? - How do the environment and strategy of the MNC, i. LÄS MER