Plant roles and decision autonomy in multinational plant networks
研究了跨国制造企业中不同角色的工厂在规划、生产和控制决策上的自主权差异，基于Ferdows的分类框架，发现工厂的战略角色与自主权程度相关。
Abstract The paper examines whether plants in a multinational manufacturing firm with different roles have different degrees of autonomy concerning planning, production and control decisions. Building on Ferdows’ framework for classifying international plants in a network, we empirically examine the proposition that the degree of managerial autonomy varies according to strategic role of the plant. We ask whether different plant roles require different management systems and different levels of responsibility for decisions and find evidence of differentiated fit.