Multinational Firm Knowledge, use of Expatriates and Foreign Subsidiary Performance

By Yulin Fang, G. Jiang, Shige Makino, Paul W. Beamish. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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An exploration of multinational enterprise knowledge resources and foreign subsidiary performance (2013, unknown): “We also included measures for expatriate ratio, subsidiary age, entry mode, industry type as well as nation and region of the host country in the analyses (Fang et al., 2010).”
Why and how does shared language affect subsidiary knowledge inflows? A social identity perspective (2015, background): “However, given that the relation between subsidiary knowledge inflows and subsidiary performance has already been established (e.g., Chang, Gong, & Peng, 2012; Fang et al., 2010), our aim rather is to examine shared language-related predictors of tacit knowledge receipt in subsidiaries.”
Language policies and practices in wholly owned foreign subsidiaries: A recontextualization perspective (2012, background): “In support, HCN managers are more effective than PCN expatriates in locally adaptive subsidiaries partly because they share the same language and culture with local customers (Fang et al., 2010).”
The Bridging Role of Expatriates and Inpatriates in Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations (2016, background): “…efficient and effective transfer of tacit knowledge from HQ, we would argue that former inpatriates may be even more suited to pass on implicit and tacit knowledge to their fellow countrymen as they better understand the perspective of the information recipients (Fang et al., 2010; Reiche, 2012).”
Knowledge transfer in multinational corporations: Productive and counterproductive effects of language-sensitive recruitment (2014, background): “Although PCN expatriates have important roles in transferring knowledge in the MNC global network (Edström & Galbraith, 1977), it is also argued that language differences make them less effective at acquiring and transferring knowledge from local communities (Fang et al., 2010).”
Expatriate Knowledge Transfer, Subsidiary Absorptive Capacity, and Subsidiary Performance (2012, result): “Finally, because we focused on subsidiaries from a single home country operating in a single host country, we did not include home-or host-country-specific factors or measures of cultural and institutional distance, as prior studies have done (Fang et al., 2010; Gaur et al., 2007; Gong, 2003a).”