SUBSIDIARY STAFFING IN MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES: AGENCY, RESOURCES, AND PERFORMANCE.
研究跨国企业如何根据文化距离使用外派母国人员配置子公司，以及这种配置对子公司绩效的影响，发现外派比例随文化距离增加而上升，但随时间减弱，且对绩效的正向影响也随文化距离增加而增强但随时间减弱。
How likely are multinational enterprises (MNEs) to use expatriate parent country nationals to staff culturally distant subsidiaries? How does their employment affect subsidiary performance? The agency theory prediction is that MNEs will rely more heavily on parent country nationals as cultural distance increases and that this reliance will weaken over time. Both agency theory and the "resource-based view" suggest that a positive effect of expatriate staffing on subsidiary performance increases with cultural distance but decreases over time. Results largely supported the predictions in data on Japanese foreign subsidiaries.