Do Japanese MNCs use Expatriates to Contain Risk in Asian Host Countries?

Jean-Pascal Bassino (), Marion Dovis () and Pierre van der Eng

AJRC Working Papers from Australia-Japan Research Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: We investigate the impact of host country risk on the expatriation strategies of multinational firms, using data on Japanese subsidiary firms in manufacturing industry in 13 host countries in Asia. We find that country risk is negatively correlated wiht the degree of expatriation and that, rather than hostry country risk, firm-specific factors (particularly capital intesity, ownership share of parent firms in subsidiaries and the age of the venture) explain most of the variation in the degree to which subsidiaries rely on Japanese expatriates. Contrary to previous studies, the capital intensity of production is a key explanatory firm-specific variable that correlates positively wiht the degree of expatriation. Japanese MNCs do no rely on expatriates to off-set host country risk, but to mitigate risk to parent investment in subsidiaries

JEL-codes: G32 M12 M16 N85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2015
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