Determining Factors of Subsidiary Development

By Torben Pedersen. 2006

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The literature on subsidiary development has greatly expanded over the last 20 years, evaluating the dynamics behind the evolution of subsidiary roles. The literature emerged out of a critique of the traditional ‘center-periphery’ view where the firm-specific advantages are developed and controlled by the parent company, while the foreign subsidiaries are the long-arm of the parent company in exploiting the firm-specific advantages in the local market. The observation that some subsidiaries have a strategic role in the multinational corporation (MNC) that reaches beyond their local undertakings (e.g. Etemad and Dulude, 1986; Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1989; Gupta and Govindarajan, 1994) was the starting point of research on different subsidiary roles and the evolution of subsidiary roles.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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