Rescuing the Industry-Based Competition to Determine the Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries in the Brazilian Host Market

Karim Marini Thome, Janan Joslin Medeiros and Juciara Nunes de Alcântara

Global Business Review, 2019, vol. 20, issue 1, 13-24

Abstract: This panel study examines the influence of the industry-based competition factor on the performance of 399 foreign subsidiaries in the Brazilian host market from 2008 to 2011. Regression analysis was carried out on panel data using weighted least squares as the estimator. The performance of foreign subsidiaries has been significantly influenced in a negative way because of the concentration of the Brazilian host market and the technology intensity level of the sector in which the subsidiaries operate. The subsidiaries should not neglect the criteria of industry-based competition. These firms should develop strategies to position themselves in specific sectors, looking to lower market concentration and lower the level of technological intensity for higher performance. Suggestions for future research are also given.

Keywords: Brazilian host market; MNEs; industry-based competition; subsidiary performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0972150918803827 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:globus:v:20:y:2019:i:1:p:13-24

DOI: 10.1177/0972150918803827

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Global Business Review from International Management Institute
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().