Who's in Charge? An Empirical Study of Executive Staffing Practices in Foreign Subsidiaries
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This study investigates executive staffing practices in foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations. Grounded in a literature review of the reasons for employing either parent country nationals or host country nationals in top management positions in foreign subsidiaries, a number of factors influencing the choice between these alternatives are identified. Using a combination of an archival and mail survey research method, the influence of each of these factors is empirically tested with a sample of nearly 3000 observations. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Global talent research has predominantly examined the role of expatriation on organizational or individual goals.
“In this sense, global talent research has predominantly examined the role of expatriation on their organizational (e.g., economic performance) or their individual (e.g., career development) goals (Chang et al., 2012;Gong, 2003aGong, , 2003b;;Harzing, 2001;Sanders & De Cieri, 2021).”
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Response rates in international mail surveys: Results of a 22-country study
Harzing, A.-W. (1997) · International Business Review · doi:10.1016/s0969-5931(97)00040-1 · Cited by 363 · see citing works
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Ren, S., Cooke, F. L., Stahl, G. K., Fan, D., & Timming, A. R. (2023) · Human Resource Management · doi:10.1002/hrm.22169 · Cited by 148 · see citing works
- Authors
- Harzing, A.
- Affiliations
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Harzing, Anne‐Wil
- ORCID
- Harzing, Anne‐Wil
- Venue
- Human Resource Management
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2001-06
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 139-158
- ISSN
- 0090-4848 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-050X
- OpenAlex
- W2011524086
- Cited by
- 310
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 17
- FWCI
- 20.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Human Resource Management (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › International Business and FDI
- Social Sciences › Communication › International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Human Resource and Talent Management
- Keywords
- foreign subsidiaries, multinational corporations, parent country nationals, host country nationals, top management positions, expatriate managers, staffing decisions
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