다국적 기업의 해외자회사에 대한 통제 메커니즘이 자회사 조직의 분권화 수준에 미치는 영향

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This paper explores the impact of headquarter control mechanisms on the degree of subsidiary decentralization within multinational corporations. We collected data on 143 Korea-based multinational corporations that have foreign subsidiaries at the end of 2013, and analyzed the impact of headquarter control mechanisms on the level of subsidiary decentralization by using multiple regression analysis. The results indicate that headquarter control by socialization (vision sharing) significantly increases the degree of subsidiary decentralization. However, contrary to the theoretical expectations of the study, the results provide some evidence for the positive influence of headquarter control by formalization (control via rules and procedures in the process of marketing and human resource management) on the degree of subsidiary decentralization. Considering the recent growing emphasis on the subsidiary's role as a competence creator, this study provides meaningful implications for Korean multinational companies in designing headquarters-subsidiary control mechanisms.

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