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Hughes, Mathew, Powell, Taman H., Chung, Leanne and Mellahi, Kamel (2017) Institutional and resource-based explanations for subsidiary performance. British Journal of Management, 28 (3). pp. 407-424. doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12169
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12169
Abstract
Addressing calls to integrate insights from institutional theory and the resource-based view, we bring together dual theoretical explanations from institutional theory and the resource-based view to examine the effectiveness of transfer of practice and human capital development as two routes to subsidiary performance. Our study of Hong Kong firms with subsidiaries in Mainland China shows that both routes positively affect subsidiary performance. However, our data show that our sampled firms struggled to successfully transfer practices from their parents. We attribute an explanation for this to the characteristics of practices as organizational capabilities in which transfer is made harder by the difficulty in replicating such capabilities. Consequently, developing subsidiary human capital is an important ally to practice transfer as a means to achieve superior subsidiary performance. Our results raise interesting questions about practice transfer and the resource-based view relevant to future scholarly research.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Subsidiary corporations -- China, Foreign subsidiaries -- Hong Kong, Personnel management, Human capital | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Management | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1045-3172 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2017 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 43 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 407-424 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8551.12169 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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