Parenting advantage in the MNC: An embeddedness perspective on the value added by headquarters
研究跨国公司总部如何通过嵌入子公司外部环境来增加价值，发现总部投资于与子公司环境的自身关系能提升其增值，且子公司自身嵌入性越强，这种关系越显著。
What determines the value an MNC 's headquarters adds to its own affiliates? In this paper, we shed light on this question by linking the embeddedness view of the multinational corporation to the literature on parenting advantage. We test our hypotheses on an original dataset of 124 manufacturing subsidiaries located in Europe. Our results indicate that the external embeddedness of the MNC is an antecedent to headquarters' value creation. We find that headquarters' investments into their own relationships with the subsidiaries' contexts are positively related to the value added by headquarters. Furthermore, this relationship is stronger when the subsidiary itself is strongly embedded. We discuss implications for the MNC literature, embeddedness research, and the literature on parenting and headquarters' roles . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.