Abstract:This article examines the impact of the staffing of foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on the innovation performance of the parent company and the moderating effect of the institutional distance between the host country and the home country. This paper conducts an empirical analysis on the data of 59 mature Chinese MNEs and their 872 overseas subsidiaries over the past 11 years and obtains some interesting results. The results show that the proportion of host country nationals (HCNs) in o… Show more
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