Subsidiary staffing in multinational enterprises: Agency, resources, and performance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gong, YP
• 署名单位: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/30040664
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 728-739
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; japanese; firm; experience; MODEL

摘要

How likely are multinational enterprises (MNEs) to use expatriate parent country nationals to staff culturally distant subsidiaries? How does their employment affect subsidiary performance? The agency theory prediction is that MNEs will rely more heavily on parent country nationals as cultural distance increases and that this reliance will weaken over time. Both agency theory and the resource-based view suggest that a positive effect of expatriate staffing on subsidiary performance increases with cultural distance but decreases over time. Results largely supported the predictions in data on Japanese foreign subsidiaries.