Headquarters and Subsidiaries in Multinational Corporations: Strategies, Tasks and Coordination

by Stewart Johnston

In the global business environment, new organizational forms come and go but in today's multinational corporations the headquarters-subsidiary link remains the primary channel by which the firm is managed. It facilitates strategy, control and coordination, and smoothes the progress of inter-unit product, personnel, factor and knowledge flows of every kind. Using data from CEOs of a large sample of Australian subsidiaries of foreign firms, this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349518468
• ISBN13: 9781349518463
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"