Subsidiary performance and decision-making authority of headquarters, expatriates, and local employees

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  • 海外子会社のパフォーマンスと本社、駐在員、現地従業員の権限
  • タイの日系販売子会社への質問票調査
  • A questionnaire survey of Japanese sales subsidiaries in Thailand.

Abstract

<p>This study examines the relationships between subsidiary performance and decision-making authority between headquarters, expatriates, and local employees in foreign sales subsidiaries. Previous studies discuss whether decision-making authority should rest with headquarters or subsidiaries, and with either expatriates or local employees. However, they have not discussed the relationships between subsidiary performance and decision-making authority by addressing all of these parties simultaneously. This study addresses this research gap using a questionnaire survey of 50 Japanese sales subsidiaries in Thailand. The results indicate that 1) placing a high level of authority with expatriates by decreasing headquarters’ authority is positively associated with a subsidiary’s performance, 2) placing a high level of authority with local employees by decreasing expatriates’ authority is negatively associated with a subsidiary’s performance, and 3) the proportion of sales to local companies weakens the negative relationship between local employees’ authority and subsidiary performance.</p>

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390001205762706304
  • NII Article ID
    130005277699
  • DOI
    10.15050/jaibs.8.1_59
  • ISSN
    21895694
    18835074
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN
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    Disallowed

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