Subsidiary political embeddedness: mechanisms for leveraging local competences

Ana Botella-Andreu is Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). In her research, she analyzes the configuration of the MNC for global expansion with particular focus on HQ-subsidiary relationships. She has been recipient for the Copenhagen business school prize and Pavlos Dimitratos Doctoral Dissertation Award and published in journals such as International Journal of Management Reviews, Management International Review and International Business Review.

Cristina Villar is Full Professor of international management at the university of Valencia. Her research interests are at the intersection of international business, innovation and organizational learning, focusing on global strategy, HQ-subsidiary relations and global value chains. She has published articles in ranked journals such as Global Strategy Journal, International Journal of Management Reviews, International Business Review, Business Research Quarterly or International Marketing Review, among others.

José Pla-Barber serves as Professor and Chair of International Business at the University of Valencia. He is a fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and an associate member at the John Dunning Center for International Business (University of Reading, UK). Pla-Barber has a distinctive list of publications in top-level journals in the field, such as the International Journal of Management Reviews, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Economic Geography, British Journal of Management, International Business Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Marketing, Management International Review, International Marketing Review, Services Industries Journal and Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, among others.

Ulf Andersson is full professor at Mälardalen University (School of Business, Society and Engineering) and BI Norwegian Business School (Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship). His research focuses on subsidiary development, knowledge governance and transfer, network theory, strategy and management of the MNE; particularly, he has used the subsidiary external embeddedness concept to understand subsidiary and MNE evolution and performance. Papers on these subjects and areas have been published in, among others, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal and International Business Review.