Autonomy delegation to foreign subsidiaries: An enabling mechanism for emerging-market multinationals

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 111-130

  Wang, Stephanie Lu ^a   Luo, Yadong ^a,b   Lu, Xiongwen ^c   Sun, Jinyun ^c   Maksimov, Vladislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

emerging market multinationals; parentsubsidiary; subsidiary autonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894123571     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2013.40     Document Type: Article

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