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管理workshop：Gaining power with status: The establishment of national headquarters by multinational corporations in China
发布日期：2017-11-02 07:20 来源：北京大学国家发展研究院
Gaining power with status: The establishment of national headquarters by multinational corporations in China
Time: November 2nd, 2017 (Thursday) 12:15 -14:00
Location: Wanzhong Building（万众小教室）, National School of Development, Peking U.
Speaker: Xufei Ma, Associate Professor (tenured) of the Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Abstract
This study develops a power balancing framework by emphasizing the mechanisms of status similarity and coordination to explain why and under what conditions a multinational corporation (MNC) will establish its national headquarters (HQ) in a large emerging economy. We propose that the establishment of a national HQ increases the social status of MNCs’ local executives to help bridge their relationships with powerful local actors such as local business groups and local government officials in the host country, which can in turn stabilize the flow of resources among the MNC’s subunits. Further, due to the internal coordinating function of national HQ in responding to external opportunities, we contend that trade interdependence between the MNC’s home and host countries serves as an important condition under which the proposed relationship above is magnified. We use a sample of Fortune Global 500 firms in China from 1979 to 2005 to test these ideas and our hypotheses generally received support.
Bio
Xufei Ma is an Associate Professor (tenured) of the Department of Management, and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center of International Business Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his PhD in business policy from NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in organizational management of multinational and entrepreneurial firms in and from emerging economies. He has published his research in leading management journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Management, among others. He is currently serving as a Guest Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of International Business Studies. He was the Winner of the Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar from the Academy of International Business and received numerous grants and awards from the CUHK, the Hong Kong SAR Government, and academic associations such as AIB, AOM, AAOM, and IACMR. He is the Dunning Fellow of the John Dunning Center of International Business Studies, the University of Reading.
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管理workshop：Gaining power with status: The establishment of national headquarters by multinational corporations in China
发布日期：2017-11-02 07:20 来源：北京大学国家发展研究院
Gaining power with status: The establishment of national headquarters by multinational corporations in China
Time: November 2nd, 2017 (Thursday) 12:15 -14:00
Location: Wanzhong Building（万众小教室）, National School of Development, Peking U.
Speaker: Xufei Ma, Associate Professor (tenured) of the Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Abstract
This study develops a power balancing framework by emphasizing the mechanisms of status similarity and coordination to explain why and under what conditions a multinational corporation (MNC) will establish its national headquarters (HQ) in a large emerging economy. We propose that the establishment of a national HQ increases the social status of MNCs’ local executives to help bridge their relationships with powerful local actors such as local business groups and local government officials in the host country, which can in turn stabilize the flow of resources among the MNC’s subunits. Further, due to the internal coordinating function of national HQ in responding to external opportunities, we contend that trade interdependence between the MNC’s home and host countries serves as an important condition under which the proposed relationship above is magnified. We use a sample of Fortune Global 500 firms in China from 1979 to 2005 to test these ideas and our hypotheses generally received support.
Bio
Xufei Ma is an Associate Professor (tenured) of the Department of Management, and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center of International Business Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his PhD in business policy from NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in organizational management of multinational and entrepreneurial firms in and from emerging economies. He has published his research in leading management journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Management, among others. He is currently serving as a Guest Editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of International Business Studies. He was the Winner of the Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar from the Academy of International Business and received numerous grants and awards from the CUHK, the Hong Kong SAR Government, and academic associations such as AIB, AOM, AAOM, and IACMR. He is the Dunning Fellow of the John Dunning Center of International Business Studies, the University of Reading.
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