Exploring Subsidiaries’ Perceptions of Corporate Headquarters: Subsidiary Initiatives and Organizing Costs
Perspectives on Headquarters-subsidiary Relationships in the Contemporary MNC
ISBN: 978-1-78635-370-2, eISBN: 978-1-78635-369-6
Publication date: 10 August 2016
Abstract
The chapter examines how distance, integration mechanisms, and atmosphere influence the level of organizing costs and subsidiary initiatives in headquarter–subsidiary relationships. Survey data were collected at the subsidiary level in one major Norwegian multinational company. Empirical analyses were based on regression and partial correlation analyses. Organizing costs are driven by distance to headquarters as well as the integration mechanisms and the atmosphere that exists in subsidiary–headquarter relationships. Another important insight gained by this study is that integration mechanisms influence subsidiary initiatives.
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Citation
Lunnan, R., Tomassen, S. and Benito, G.R.G. (2016), "Exploring Subsidiaries’ Perceptions of Corporate Headquarters: Subsidiary Initiatives and Organizing Costs", Perspectives on Headquarters-subsidiary Relationships in the Contemporary MNC (Research in Global Strategic Management, Vol. 17), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 165-189. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1064-485720160000017007
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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