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Foreign Market Subsidiary Mandates: A Select and Temporary Mnc Phenomenon?

Foreign Market Subsidiary Mandates: A Select and Temporary Mnc Phenomenon?

Lohr, Nicolas

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Business GeneralManagement

ISBN10: 3658026677
ISBN13: 9783658026677
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 10 2013
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Internationalization processes have long been a core topic of International Business research. Very little focus, however, was thereby put on how foreign subsidiaries themselves internationalize. Nicolas Lohr investigates how foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations expand their presence and functional scope into foreign territories. Multiple case-studies based on in-depth interviews with HQ and subsidiary management suggest that subsidiary internationalization represents a select MNC phenomenon. Foreign subsidiaries only appear to receive cross-border responsibility if their value proposition for overcoming liability of inter-regional foreignness is capable of more than offsetting any risk increase that stems from principal-agent relationships between corporate headquarters and foreign subsidiaries. After attaining the initial mandate, the subsidiary's restrained access to HQ-like functions, intra-MNC competition and altering localization degrees in the market covered by the mandate puts the sustainability of cross-border responsibilities at risk. As a consequence, the internationalization of foreign subsidiaries often follow discontinuous rather than gradual evolutionary trajectories. In addition, cross-border subsidiary mandates appear to be pre-defined and temporary in nature. As a result, they may have a limited life span from their very conception.

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