Success Factors of Regional Strategies for Multinational Corporations: Exploring the Appropriate Degree of Regional Management Autonomy and Regional Product/Service Adaptation

Gilbert, Dirk Ulrich; Heinecke, Patrick

doi:10.1007/s11575-014-0220-9

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“…In particular, although the use of sales and assets as proxies for downstream and upstream supply chain activities, respectively, is in line with prior SCM research (e.g. Gilbert and Heinecke, 2014; Rugman et al , 2009), we acknowledge that these proxies might be too simplistic to account for the potential complexity of a firm’s supply chain. Similarly, relying on the cash-to-cash cycle to illustrate supply chain efficiency, while widely used by researchers and practitioners (e.g.…”

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Lam

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theoretically hypothesise and empirically test the impact of sustainable supply chain practices (SSCPs) on firms’ financial risk. Design/methodology/approach This research adopts signalling theory to explain the signalling role of SSCPs and the moderating role of the signalling environment in terms of supply chain characteristics. It collects and combines longitudinal secondary data from multiple sources to test the direct impact of SSCPs on firms’ financial risk and the moderating role of supply chain complexity and efficiency. It conducts various additional tests to check the robustness of the findings and to account for alternative explanations. Findings This research shows that SSCPs help firms reduce financial risk but do not affect their returns. Moreover, the risk reduction of SSCPs is greater for firms with more complex and efficient supply chains. The findings are robust to alternative variable measurements and analysing strategies. Research limitations/implications This research reveals the role of SSCPs in reducing financial risk, urging researchers to pay more attention to the financial risk implications of supply chain practices in general and SSCPs in particular. Practical implications This research encourages firms to engage in SSCPs to reduce financial risk and enables them to assess the urgency of their SSCPs investments in view of the complexity and efficiency of their supply chains. Originality/value This is the first research examining the impact of SSCPs on financial risk, based on longitudinal secondary data and signalling theory. The empirical evidence documented and the theoretical perspective adopted offer important implications for future practice and research on SSCPs.

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confidence: 59%

“…Prior studies (e.g. Gilbert and Heinecke, 2014; Rugman and Verbeke, 2004) have suggested using sales and assets as proxies for downstream and upstream supply chain activities, respectively. Rugman et al (2009) further checked the robustness of these proxies.…”

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Lam

2018

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“…Beugelsdijk & Mudambi, 2013;McCann & Mudambi, 2005;see Nielsen Asmussen, & Weatherall, 2017, for a recent review). It should be noted that the IB field has also examined the role of supranational regional characteristics in determining FDI location choices, building on the seminal contribution by Rugman andVerbeke (2004) (see, e.g., Arregle et al, 2013;Gilbert & Heinecke, 2014;Mataloni, 2011). Despite its relevance, for the purpose of this paper we focus here on the fundamental distinction between studies that use between-country variation (and that use country-level data to study location choice among a set of host countries) and those that use within-country variation (which take subnational regional-level data to examine choice among different locations within a given country, most recently including global cities) as this has been the primary distinction in this body of research (cf.…”

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Does it pay for cities to be green? An investigation of FDI inflows and environmental sustainability

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Recent years have seen growing interest in a leading role for cities in addressing major environmental sustainability challenges including cleaner air and water. While geographers have long studied urban governance responses, international business (IB) scholars have embraced city-level analyses only in the past decade, primarily to examine multinationals' location strategies. Thus far, IB has not studied cities' environmental sustainability in relation to foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Our paper does so by analyzing whether it 'pays' to be green for cities in attracting FDI inflows, using a comprehensive sample of Chinese cities of different sizes over a 7-year period comprising 918 city-year observations. A fixed-effects panel data estimation shows that it indeed pays for cities to be green, specifically considering air quality and waste water treatment, two key locational factors exposing different mechanisms. Implications for green urban and business policies and for IB research are discussed.

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“…Gilbert and Heinecke (2014) argue that the relationship between regional strategies and MNE performance might be contingent upon conditions and developments within the firm and external environments (Banalieva and Dhanaraj, 2013;Bausch, Fritz, and Boesecke, 2007;Heinecke, 2011). Gilbert and Heinecke (2014) examine success factors of regional strategies for MNEs by exploring the degree of regional management and product/ service adaptations to regional market requirements and regional differences, which might lead to better regional performance. They find that low degrees of regional management autonomy and high levels of regional product/ service adaptation are appropriate for MNEs to be regionally successful.…”

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“…Consequently, HQs delegate decision making to the regional headquarters (RHQs) (Rugman, 2005) as the latter has better access to information of national and regional markets. Bounded rationality creates the need for regional management structures when MNEs establish locally-oriented subsidiaries in distant regions and when the number of different economies within a particular region increases (Enright, 2005a;Gilbert and Heinecke, 2014).…”

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The Regional Mne And Coordination Of Mne Organizational Structures

Nguyen¹

2018

The Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business

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Success Factors of Regional Strategies for Multinational Corporations: Exploring the Appropriate Degree of Regional Management Autonomy and Regional Product/Service Adaptation

Cited by 13 publications

References 99 publications

Doing good across organizational boundaries

Doing good across organizational boundaries

Does it pay for cities to be green? An investigation of FDI inflows and environmental sustainability

The Regional Mne And Coordination Of Mne Organizational Structures

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