Strategic management staffing decisions among German subsidiaries in Japan |
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Authors: | Ralf Bebenroth Werner Pascha |
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Affiliation: | 1.Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration,Kobe University,Kobe,Japan;2.Mercator School of Management,University of Duisburg-Essen,Duisburg,Germany |
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Abstract: | This study discusses the composition of strategic management teams in foreign subsidiaries beyond decisions solely about the general manager, i.e. encompassing third-country nationals; locally hired “foreigners” as well as managers on short-term assignments. We extend the discussion about expatriates by developing hypotheses about those issues based on the resource-based view of the firm and the principal agent theory and find that both are important for understanding staffing decisions. This research analyses these issues by means of a data set on German subsidiaries in Japan and shows that recent changes in the global environment are providing multinationals greater latitude when staffing foreign-based subsidiaries, including choices that have not been given due weight in IHRM literature. |
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