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Abstract:
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Abstract
This study reports the results of interviews with 65 managers in 11 German
headquarters and in their 13 Hungarian subsidiaries. We focused on the role of the
subsidiary with regard to market, product and value-adding mandates. Further, we
investigated whether the Hungarian subsidiaries had experienced an upgrade of their
role during the first 10 years of transition. The host country economy was supportive to
role development, but inadequate subsidiary capabilities and headquarters’ assignments
prevented the subsidiaries from being upgraded. We propose that the corporate immune
system, ie, ethnocentric behaviours emanating from the headquarters should be included
in future upgrading analyses. |
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