... theoretically and empirically whether state ownership mitigates the impact of host-country political risk on subsidiary economic risk. Design/methodology/approach The authors link theoretical arguments on state ownership to arguments from non-market strategy literature to outline mechanisms whereby state...

...Yen-Chen Ho Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that multilateral knowledge transfer emerges from two lines of thinking in the international business (IB) literature – the exploitation of multinationality and the contributory role of subsidiaries – and links three levels of analysis...

...Hanane Beddi; Ulrike Mayrhofer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of location in the relationships established between headquarters and foreign subsidiaries. Design/methodology/approach The empirical study is based on three in‐depth case‐studies of French multinationals...

... of subsidiaries and multinational enterprises and organizational formats for foreign operations. Design/methodology/approach A bibliometric study focused on Bartlett and Ghoshal's well‐known book Managing across Borders: The Transnational Solution is performed to assess its impact in international...

...Frank McDonald; Heinz Josef Tüselmann; Svitlana Voronkova; Sougand Golesorkhi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between the strategic development of subsidiaries and the likelihood of subsidiaries exporting on an intra‐regional basis to European markets. Design...

...Quyen T.K. Nguyen Purpose This paper aims to provide a synthetic review of the empirical literature on the multinational enterprise (MNE), subsidiaries and performance. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines the following: the theoretical and conceptual foundation of multinationality...

...Ayse Olcay Costello; Thomas G. Costello To better understand the relationship between the headquarters and subsidiaries of multinational corporations, we introduce and test a theoretical framework that builds on and extends the positive agency theoretic corporate governance literature. Results...

...Jane W. Lu; Paul W. Beamish This paper explores the potential competitive advantages from the development of an internal network of subsidiaries and external network of alliances. Given the broad scope and lack of systematic investigation in prior research, clinical field research was conducted...

...Joao Pedro Couto; Jose Cabral Vieira This paper examines the effect of national culture on the process of innovation and research and development activities in the subsidiaries of multinational companies. For this purpose, we use a sample of 222 subsidiaries for five European countries. The paper...