Achieving Subsidiary Integration in International Innovation by Managerial “Tools”

Our study articulates and empirically tests a theory of how the parent firm of a multinational corporation (MNC) can achieve global integration of subsidiaries into the MNC’s intrafirm network by using managerial “tools” to manipulate the MNC’s formal organizational architecture. Taking a subsidiary’s performance as an observable criterion to measure the success of its integration into the global intra-firm network, the model is tested on a...