MNE competence-creating subsidiary mandates

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cantwell, J; Mudambi, R
• 署名单位: Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.497
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1109-1128
• 关键词: MNEs; competence; R&D; subsidiary entrepreneurship; mandates; acquisition

摘要

The determinants of R&D intensity differ between subsidiaries in a multinational enterprise (MNE). Previous literature suggests that whether a subsidiary achieves a competence-creating output mandate depends on the qualities of its location. R&D strategies in competence-creating subsidiaries are supply-driven while those in purely competence-exploiting subsidiaries are demand-driven. Using data on U.K. subsidiaries of non-U.K. MNEs, we find that the level of subsidiary R&D depends on MNE group-level and subsidiary-level characteristics as well as locational factors. The R&D of mandated subsidiaries rises with acquisition, but for non mandated subsidiaries R&D,falls upon acquisition. MNEs that grow through acquisition have more inter-subsidiary R&D diversity. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.