Autonomy, Embeddedness, and the Performance of Foreign Owned Subsidiaries

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 73-92

  Mcdonald, Frank ^a   Warhurst, Svetlana ^b   Allen, Matthew ^c  

^a BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Decision making; Embeddedness; Foreign owned subsidiaries; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993012428     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/1525383X200800014     Document Type: Review

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