Hybridization of MNE Subsidiaries The

"Multinational enterprises setting up subsidiaries in emerging markets face the ongoing issue of the extent to which they can transfer their home-grown or global organizational models. Addressing this question, this book shows how and why the hybridization profiles of automobile subsidiaries in India differ. Focusing on the transfer and local adaptation of production models, the author argues that only when we consider strategic choices at the corporate and subsidiary level, as well as their institutional and strategic embeddedness, can we understand subsidiary hybridization."--BOOK JACKET.

FLORIAN BECKER-RITTERSPACH is Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, at the department of International Business and Management. His international career involved studies and research stays at the Humboldt University of Berlin, The New School of Social Research, New York and recently at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Specializing on the Indian automobile industry and cross-border transfers of organizational forms and practices within the context multinational corporations, he has presented his work at various international conferences and journals.

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xv
Theoretical Foundations	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Background	p. 3
Research gaps and contributions	p. 3
The Study's theoretical contribution	p. 4
The study's empirical contribution	p. 5
Research objective	p. 5
The structure of the study	p. 7
Transfer and Hybridization in MNEs	p. 8
Japanization or Transplant perspectives	p. 8
Institutionalist perspectives	p. 16
International Business Perspectives	p. 28
Approaches compared	p. 36
Subsidiary Hybridization-Conceptual and Methodological Tools and Methodological Tools	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
Production systems and hybridization outcomes defined	p. 44
Strategic and institutional distance, strategic choices and hybridization outcomes	p. 47
Research design and methodology	p. 63
Empirical Results	p. 75
India's Business Context and the Automotive Sector	p. 77
India's institutional context	p. 77
India's strategic context in the automobile sector	p. 87
The Case of Maruti-Suzuki India	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Analysis of the hybridization profile	p. 102
The Case of Fiat India	p. 136
Introduction	p. 136
Analysis of the hybridization profile	p. 140
The Case of Mercedes-Benz India	p. 173
Introduction	p. 136
Analysis of the hybridization profile	p. 140
The Case of Skoda Auto India	p. 214
Introduction	p. 214
Analysis of the hybridization profile	p. 219
Discussion	p. 250
Core findings - similarities and differences mapped and explained	p. 251
Conclusion	p. 270
Notes	p. 274
Bibliography	p. 276
Index	p. 296
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