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Subsidiary influence of multinational enterprise headquaters scope requirements
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| author2 | Rowley, Colin |
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/85486 Subsidiary influence of multinational enterprise headquaters scope requirements Rowley, Colin Brooks, Raymond Clive UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2021. In today’s competitive business environment, subsidiaries play an essential role in a multinational enterprise’s (MNE’s) strategy. MNE’s establish and gain competitive advantage by leveraging subsidiaries’ firm-specific advantage, local embeddedness and global integration. Given the MNE’s global strategy, subsidiaries are assigned specific mandates and scope requirements. However, these scope requirements hamper subsidiaries to identidy and exploit business opportunities. Thus, the extent to which subsidiary managers are allowed to make strategic decisions based on their operational environment, without interference from MNE headquarters, directly influences the subsidiary's performance. The purpose of the research is to analyse the behaviour of the subsidiary managers by understanding their motivation, personal characteristics and actions to influence headquarters decisions regarding proposed scope changes. A qualitative, exploratory research approach was used to gain deeper understanding and insights from subsidiary managers experiences in applying upward influence on headquarters. Data was collected through twelve indepth, semi-structured interviews with subsidiary managers within various subsidiaries. The research outcome is a proposed subsidiary-headquarters influence model that provides a framework subsidiary managers can use to understand the process and nuances to influencing headquarters. zl22 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2022-05-17T11:21:49Z 2022-05-17T11:21:49Z 2022/04/07 2021 Mini Dissertation * https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85486 en © 2020 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
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| title | Subsidiary influence of multinational enterprise headquaters scope requirements |
| title_full | Subsidiary influence of multinational enterprise headquaters scope requirements |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Subsidiary influence of multinational enterprise headquaters scope requirements |
| title_short | Subsidiary influence of multinational enterprise headquaters scope requirements |
| title_sort | subsidiary influence of multinational enterprise headquaters scope requirements |
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| url | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/85486 |