General manager staffing and performance in transitional economy subsidiaries

International Studies of Management and Organization

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 55-87

  Schotter, Andreas ^a   Beamish, Paul W ^b  

^a THUNDERBIRD SCHOOL OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959951638     PISSN: 00208825     EISSN: 15580911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825410203     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Beamish, P.W. 1993. "The Characteristics of Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China." Journal of International Marketing 1 (2): 29-48.
2. Beamish, P.W., and A.C. Inkpen. 1998. "Japanese Firms and the Decline of the Japanese Expatriate." Journal of World Business 33 (1): 33-55.
3. Belderbos, R.A., and M.G. Heijltjes. 2005. "The Determinants of Expatriate Staffng by Japanese Multinationals in Asia: Control, Learning and Vertical Business Groups." Journal of International Business Studies 36 (3): 341-355.
4. Boisot, M., and J. Child. 1996. "From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China's Emerging Economic Order." Administrative Science Quarterly 41 (4): 600-628.
5. Boyacigiller, N. 1990. "The Role of Expatriates in the Management of Interdependence, Complexity and Risk in Multinational Corporations." Journal of International Business Studies 21 (3): 357-381.
6. Buckley, P.J.; J. Clegg; and C. Wang. 2002. "The Impact of Inward FDI on the Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms." Journal of International Business Studies 33 (4): 637-655.
7. Carroll, G.R., and M.T. Hannan. 1989. "Density Dependence in the Evolution of Populations of Newspaper Organizations." American Sociological review 54 (4): 524-541.
8. Chadee, D.C.; F. Qiu; and E.L. Rose. 2003. "FDI Location at the Sub-National Level: A Study of EJVs in China." Journal of Business research 56: 835-845.
9. Child, J., and G. Mollering. 2003. "Contextual Confdence and Active Trust Development in the Chinese Business Environment." Organization Science 14 (1): 69-80.
10. Child, J., and T. Tsai. 2005. "The Dynamic Between Firms' Environmental Strategies and Institutional Constraints in Emerging Economies: Evidence from China and Taiwan." Journal of Management Studies 42 (1): 95-125.
11. Cohen, J.; P. Cohen; S.G. West; and L.S. Aiken. 2003. Applied Multiple regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
12. Deeds, D.L.; P.Y. Mang; and M.L. Frandsen. 2004. "The Infuence of Firms' and Industries' Legitimacy on the Flow of Capital into High-Technology Ventures." Strategic Organization 2 (1): 9-34.
13. Delios, A., and P.W. Beamish. 1999a. "Geographic Scope, Product Diversifcation, and the Corporate Performance of Japanese Firms." Strategic Management Journal 20 (8): 711-727.
14. -. 1999b. "Ownership Strategy of Japanese Firms: Transactional, Institutional, and Experience Infuences." Strategic Management Journal 20 (10): 915-933. (Pubitemid 129545629)
15. -. 2001b. "Of Bears, Bumble-Bees, and Spiders: The Role of Expatriates in Controlling Foreign Subsidiaries." Journal of World Business 36 (4): 366-379.
16. Heckman, J.J. 1979. "Sample Selection Bias as a Specifcation Error." econometrica 47 (1): 153-161.
17. Hite, J.M., and W.S. Hesterly. 2001. "The Evolution of Firm Networks: From Emergence to Early Growth of the Firm." Strategic Management Journal 22 (3): 275-286.
18. Hutchings, K., and S. Michailova. 2004. "Facilitating Knowledge Sharing in Russian and Chinese Subsidiaries: The Role of Personal Networks and Group Membership." Journal of Knowledge Management 8 (2): 84-94.
19. Kawakami, S. 1996. "Local Problems." Far eastern economic review, July 4: 44.
20. Keeley, T.D. 2001. International human resource Management in Japanese Firms: Their Greatest Challenge. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
21. Kogut, B., and A. Singh. 1988. "The Effect of National Culture on the Choice of Entry Mode." Journal of International Business Studies 19 (3): 411-432.
22. Kostova, T. 1996. "Success of the Transnational Transfer of Organizational Practices Within Multinational Companies. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota.
23. -. 1999. "Transnational Transfer of Strategic Organizational Practices: A Contextual Perspective." Academy of Management review 24 (2): 308-324.
24. Kostova, T., and S. Zaheer. 1999. "Organizational Legitimacy Under Conditions of Complexity: The Case of the Multinational Enterprise." Academy of Management review 24 (1): 64-81.
25. Luo, Y. , and M.W. Peng. 1999. "Learning to Compete in a Transition Economy: Experience, Environment, and Performance." Journal of International Business Studies 30 (2): 269-296.
26. Meyer, K.E., and H.V. Nguyen. 2005. "Foreign Investment Strategies and Sub-National Institutions in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Vietnam." Journal of Management Studies 42 (1): 63-93.
27. Micklewright, J. 1994. "The Analysis of Pooled Cross-Sectional Data: Early School Leaving." In Analyzing Social and Political Change: A Casebook of Methods, ed. A. Dale and R.B. Davies, 78-97. London: Sage. National Bureau of Statistics of China. Various years. China Statistical Yearbook. Beijing: China Statistics Press.
28. North, D.C. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
29. Oliver, C. 1996. "The Institutional Embeddedness of Economic Activity." Advances in Strategic Management 13: 163-186.
30. -. 1997. "The Infuence of Institutional and Task Environment Relationships on Organizational Performance: The Canadian Construction Industry." Journal of Management Studies 34 (1): 99-124.
31. Peng, G.Z., and P.W. Beamish. 2007. "Evolving FDI Legitimacy and Strategic Choice of Japanese Subsidiaries in China." Management and Organization review 3 (3): 373-396.
32. Peng, M.W. 2000. "Controlling the Foreign Agent: How Governments Deal with Multinationals in a Transition Economy." Management International review 40 (2): 141-165.
33. -. 2002. "Towards an Institution-Based View of Business Strategy." Asia Pacifc Journal of Management 19 (2-3): 251-267.
34. -. 2003. "Institutional Transitions and Strategic Choices." Academy of Management review 28 (2): 275-296. (Pubitemid 36446328)
35. -. 2005. "Perspectives-From China Strategy to Global Strategy." Asia Pacifc Journal of Management 22 (2): 123-141. (Pubitemid 40901164)
36. Toyo-Keizai. 2003. Kaigai shinshutsu kigyou souran, kuni betsu (Japanese Investments Overseas, by Country). Tokyo
37. Tse, D.K., Y. Pan, and K.Y. Au. 1997. "How MNCs Choose Entry Modes and Form Alliances: the China Experience." Journal of International Business Studies 28 (4): 779-805.
38. Tung, R.L. 1982. "Selection and Training Procedures of US, European, and Japanese Multinationals." California Management review 25 (1): 57-71.
39. Uzzi, B. 1996. "The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect." American Sociological review 61 (4): 674-698.
40. Wilkinson, T.J.; G.Z. Peng; L.E. Brouthers; and P.W. Beamish. 2008. "The Diminishing Effect of Cultural Distance on Subsidiary Control." Journal of International Management 14 (2): 93-107.
41. Wright, M.; I. Filatotchev; R.E. Hoskisson; and M.W. Peng. 2005. "Strategy Research in Emerging Economies: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom." Journal of Management Studies 42 (1): 1-33.
42. Xu, D., and O. Shenkar. 2002. "Institutional Distance and the Multinational Enterprise." Academy of Management review 27 (4): 608-618.
43. Xu, D.; Y. Pan; and P.W. Beamish. 2004. "The Effect of Regulative and Normative Distances on MNE Ownership and Expatriate Strategies." Management International review 44 (3): 285-307.
44. Yiu, D., and S. Makino. 2002. "The Choice Between Joint Venture and Wholly Owned Subsidiary: An Institutional Perspective." Organization Science 13 (6): 667-683.
45. Zaheer, S. 1995. "Overcoming the Liability of Foreignness." Academy of Management Journal 38 (2): 341-363.