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Differing Perspectives on Subsidiary Roles and their Implications

Contributors: Daniel, Andrea; Schmid, Prof. Dr. Stefan

In the past decades, the notion of differentiated subsidiary roles within multinational network corporations has inspired a considerable amount of research. Surprisingly, the question of whether headquarters and subsidiary managers perceive a certain subsidiary’s role in the same way has been neglected. Andrea Daniel not only compares headquarters and subsidiary managers’ perceptions of a subsidiary’s role, but she analyzes the implications of perception gaps for the headquarters-subsidiary relationship. The author develops a novel conceptual framework that allows to examine headquarters-subsidiary relationships and, in particular, the subsidiary role concept. This framework proposes headquarters-subsidiary conflict as the main implication of perception gaps.

Book Details

• Publisher: Gabler Verlag
• Publication Date: 2010-02-24
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN-13: 9783834920713
• Pages: 300