Within-country product diversification and foreign subsidiary performance

Andrew Delios, Dean Xu and Paul W Beamish
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Andrew Delios: Department of Business Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dean Xu: School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Paul W Beamish: Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Journal of International Business Studies, 2008, vol. 39, issue 4, 706-724

Abstract: We examine the product diversification of a multinational firm within each of its host-country markets. Based on a sample of 12,992 foreign subsidiaries of Japanese multinational firms, we find that higher levels of within-country product diversity led to higher subsidiary performance where the institutional strength of the local market was weak, and where a firm's corporate product diversity level was high. Our study highlights the importance of examining a multinational firm's strategy in its individual host-country markets, as influenced by the institutional characteristics of a host-country market and the corporate-level strategy of the multinational firm. Journal of International Business Studies (2008) 39, 706–724. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400378

Date: 2008
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