Expatriation and its effect on headquarters' attention in the multinational enterprise
研究了外派人员如何帮助子公司吸引总部关注，发现当子公司或市场增长时，外派人员能有效传递信号，提升总部关注概率。
We explore the circumstances under which expatriates can help their host‐subsidiary capture headquarters' attention. Our central contention is that expatriates will be particularly helpful in situations where a subsidiary or its market is showing signs of growth, allowing headquarters to recognize information signaling opportunities for the firm that could otherwise go unnoticed. We test this contention using a robust instrumental variable approach in a single multinational enterprise. Our results show that subsidiaries hosting expatriates and experiencing growth at the subsidiary or market level have a higher probability of capturing headquarters' attention . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.