Success Factors of Regional Strategies for Multinational Corporations: Exploring the Appropriate Degree of Regional Management Autonomy and Regional Product/Service Adaptation

Dirk Ulrich Gilbert () and Patrick Heinecke
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Dirk Ulrich Gilbert: University of Hamburg
Patrick Heinecke: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Management International Review, 2014, vol. 54, issue 5, No 2, 615-651

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the factors that drive the success of multinational corporations (MNCs) in their pursuit of regional strategies. Based on contingency theory, we develop a comprehensive regional success factor model to investigate the effects of regional management autonomy and regional product/service adaptation on the regional success of MNCs. Using structural equation modelling, we also analyse the interaction effects of regional orientation and inter-regional distance. We evaluate our model by means of both primary and secondary data for Fortune Global 500 firms. Our findings show that appropriate degrees of regional management autonomy and regional product/service adaptation are highly contingent upon contextual influences on MNCs.

Keywords: International business theory; Contingency theory; Regional strategy or strategies; Multinational corporations (MNCs) and enterprises (MNEs); Semiglobalisation; Performance; Structural equation modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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