PARENTING ADVANTAGE IN THE MNC: AN EMBEDDEDNESS PERSPECTIVE ON THE VALUE ADDED BY HEADQUARTERS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Nell, Phillip C.; Ambos, Bjoern
• 署名单位: Copenhagen Business School; Vienna University of Economics & Business
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2058
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 1086-1103
• 关键词: local linkages; Embeddedness; parent value added; Parenting; headquarters-subsidiary relationships

摘要

What determines the value an MNC's headquarters adds to its own affiliates? In this paper, we shed light on this question by linking the embeddedness view of the multinational corporation to the literature on parenting advantage. We test our hypotheses on an original dataset of 124 manufacturing subsidiaries located in Europe. Our results indicate that the external embeddedness of the MNC is an antecedent to headquarters' value creation. We find that headquarters' investments into their own relationships with the subsidiaries' contexts are positively related to the value added by headquarters. Furthermore, this relationship is stronger when the subsidiary itself is strongly embedded. We discuss implications for the MNC literature, embeddedness research, and the literature on parenting and headquarters' roles. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.