TY  - CHAP
AB  - Drawing on empirical data from two studies of 119 Japanese affiliates located in the United States and Europe, this chapter focuses on three fundamental questions: (1) What organizational factors influence performance of the overseas affiliates of Japanese MNCs? (2) What impact does expatriate staffing have on the affiliate’s performance? (3) What factors influence expatriate staffing patterns in Japanese MNCs? The empirical results lend support to the hypothesis that MNCs characterized by global integration and local responsiveness will outperform less transnational competitors, although there are significant differences between the American and European subsamples on the impact of expatriate presence on affiliate performance. In addition, there is no support for the life-cycle prediction that age or parent company experience influences expatriate staffing levels or for the resource dependence prediction that integration with the parent influences expatriate presence. These results and their implications are discussed.
VL  - 17
SN  - 978-0-76231-157-6, 978-1-84950-309-9/1571-5027
DO  - 10.1016/S0747-7929(04)17009-1
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0747-7929(04)17009-1
AU  - Beechler Schon
AU  - Pucik Vladimir
AU  - Stephan John
AU  - Campbell Nigel
ED  - Tom Roehl
ED  - Allan Bird
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - THE TRANSNATIONAL CHALLENGE: PERFORMANCE AND EXPATRIATE PRESENCE IN THE OVERSEAS AFFILIATES OF JAPANESE MNCs
T2  - Japanese Firms in Transition: Responding to the Globalization Challenge
T3  - Advances in International Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 215
EP  - 242
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -