Weight Versus Voice: How Foreign Subsidiaries Gain Attention From Corporate Headquarters

This study investigates how foreign subsidiaries gain attention from corporate headquarters. Using detailed questionnaire and archival data on 283 subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, our analysis revealed three significant findings. First, attention decisions are partially based on the structural positions that subsidiary units occupy within a corporate system–their “weight.” Second, a subsidiary also has a “voice” of its own that it can...