Pull the right levers: Creating internationally "useful" subsidiary competence by organizational architecture

Long Range Planning

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 32-48

  Palmié, Maximilian ^a   Keupp, Marcus Matthias ^a,b   Gassmann, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION;

ACADEMIC LITERATURE; HOME-BASE AUGMENTING; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MOTIVATION THEORIES; MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS; OPERATIONAL AUTONOMY; ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE;

ARCHITECTURE;

AUTONOMY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

EID: 84896479730     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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