Feedback-seeking behavior within multinational corporations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gupta, AK; Govindarajan, V; Malhotra, A
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199903)20:3<205::AID-SMJ17>3.0.CO;2-H
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 205-222
• 关键词: feedback seeking; MULTINATIONAL; COORDINATION; Control

摘要

Notwithstanding their concern with intra-MNC control mechanisms, scholars have overlooked the complementary phenomenon of self-regulatory behavior by subsidiaries. In this paper, we take the first steps towards addressing this gap by advancing and testing hypotheses dealing with the determinants of a major element of self-regulatory behavior at the subsidiary level, i.e., the performance-oriented feedback-seeking behavior of subsidiary presidents. Utilizing data from 374 subsidiaries of 75 MNCs, we test hypotheses regarding the impact of subsidiary task and organizational context on the feedback-seeking behavior of subsidiary presidents. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: (i) subsidiary presidents do engage in proactive performance-oriented feedback-seeking behavior; (ii) they vary in the extent to which they engage in such behavior and (iii) these variations in feedback-seeking behavior are at least partially systematic. Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.