From statistically analyses from a sample of 134 MNC subsidiaries in Taiwan, this study reveals two critical contingencies: (1) a global integration strategy with headquarters high uniculturalism and tight control over subsidiary, and (2) a local responsiveness strategy with headquarters low uniculturalism and loose control over subsidiary, are associated with superior subsidiary performance.
Of course, the historic position of most national units of worldwide companies has been that of the implementer of strategy from headquarters.
To refine this strategy, UNICEF Headquarters envisaged collecting relevant data on the way the programme works and on its impact through PDs and the interventions targeting men and women.
As a brand, you can't create strategy exclusively from headquarters, any more than the military can fight terrorists from a battleship.
Though Twitter and Facebook are both in the business of social media, Twitter seems to have opted for a headquarters strategy better equipped to avoid the seemingly inevitable groupthink that a warehouse of tightly packed engineers might produce.
Will new corporate structures follow GM's strategy, where the headquarters are located in the U. S., but the majority of its profits come out of China?
Eros Resmini, who oversaw developer relations for mobile-social gaming network OpenFeint through its $104 million acquisition by GREE, just left the Japanese gaming company not long after it transitioned its platform building strategy back to headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
THOUGHT-LEADER: He has given keynote addresses and presentations on digital strategy at NATO Headquarters, Harvard University, the annual Google Conference, the Smithsonian Institution, and at conferences and events in cities on 3 continents, including London, Amman, Kuala Lumpur, Istanbul, Belgrade, Hong Kong, New Delhi, and Kazan (Russia).
When the speeches were over, Gore reached down from the stage to hug James Carville, who directed Clinton's day-to-day strategy from the Little Rock headquarters.
What we have found in one research study after another is that how business really gets done has little connection to the strategy developed at corporate headquarters.
