Apr 1, 2020
Completed:【KAKEN】Implications of Bridge Individuals and Bridging Roles for Headquarter-Subsidiary Relationships: a Mixed Method Empirical Study of Multinational Companies
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists > Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
Project Period
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Principal Investigator
Senior Lecturer Ting LIU
Keywords
- bridge individuals / bridging roles / headquarter&subsidiary / language&cultural skills / multinational companies
Outline
This research utilizes a mixed-method approach with a qualitative explorative study and a quantitative theory testing study, to investigate a relatively new and unexplored research topic: bridge individuals, bridging roles, and their implications for the headquarter (HQ)-subsidiary relationships of multinational companies (MNCs).