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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT: VOLUME 33, NUMBER 4
Institutional Environments, Staffing Strategies, and Subsidiary Performance
(http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/33/4/611)
By Ajai S. Gaur (
ajai@nus.edu.sg), Andrew Delios, and Kulwant Singh
The authors adopt and develop an institutional perspective to advance
understanding of how host country environments influence subsidiary
staffing strategies. They propose and find that (a) firms rely more on
expatriates in institutionally distant environments for reasons related
to the efficient transfer of management practices and firm-specific
capabilities and (b) the positive influence of expatriate staffing
levels on subsidiary performance is dependent on the institutional
distance between the host and home country, and subsidiary experience.
The authors' findings are based on their analysis of expatriate
employment levels and performance in 12,997 foreign subsidiaries of
2,952 Japanese firms in 48 countries.
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Keith D. Brouthers
Professor of Business Strategy
University of London, King's College London
150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH
keith.brouthers@kcl.ac.uk
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