The Multinational Subsidiary

Management Economic Development and Public Policy

N. Hood

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• ISBN:
  9780230510807
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: International Business
• Index: Business

This book highlights the evolution of the thinking on the multinational subsidiary over a quarter of a century, from the early concerns about the 'branch plant syndrome' to very current topics relating to the Multinational Enterprise as a differentiated corporate network and its role in innovation and entrepreneurship. It summarises and evaluates the state of the art in research on the multinational subsidiary, with particular reference to managerial and economic development dimensions. The volume presents the articles of Neil Hood (written in conjunction with other leading scholars, particularly Julian Birkinshaw and Stephen Young), along with new contributions. The book will be of major interest to students, researchers and policy makers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Multinational Subsidiary
• Contents
• Foreword
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction and Overview
• 2 US Investment in Scotland: Aspects of the Branch Factory Syndrome (1976)
• 3 R&D Intensity in the Affiliates of US-Owned Electronics Companies Manufacturing in Scotland (1983)
• 4 European Locational Decisions of Japanese Manufacturers: Survey Evidence on the Case of the UK (1993)
• 5 Strategic Evolution within Japanese Manufacturing Plants in Europe: UK Evidence (1994)
• 6 Inward Investment and the EC: UK Evidence on Corporate Integration Strategies (1987)
• 7 Global Strategies, Multinational Subsidiary Roles and Economic Impact in Scotland (1988)
• 8 Multinational Enterprises and Regional Economic Development (1994)
• 9 Characteristics of Foreign Subsidiaries in Industry Clusters (2000)
• 10 An Empirical Study of Development Processes in Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries in Canada and Scotland (1997)
• 11 Multinational Subsidiary Evolution: Capability and Charter Change in Foreign-Owned Subsidiary Companies (1998)
• 12 Building Firm-Specific Advantages in Multinational Corporations: The Role of Subsidiary Initiative (1998)
• 13 Unleash Innovation in Foreign Subsidiaries (2001)
• 14 Future Directions in International Business Research: The MNE, Subsidiary and Host Country Agendas
• 15 Living at the Academic–Practitioner Interface
• Bibliography
• Author Index
• Subject Index