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The Effect Of Headquarter Integration Mechanisms On Subsidiaries’ New Product Success: From Control To Coordination Mechanism, Firmanzah Firmanzah
The Effect Of Headquarter Integration Mechanisms On Subsidiaries’ New Product Success: From Control To Coordination Mechanism, Firmanzah Firmanzah
The South East Asian Journal of Management
New product launching (NPL) to the local market by subsidiary managers is a strategic activity, which requires organizational supports from MNC global network. The NPL activity is marked by high level of uncertainty, risk, and market failure. Thus, a headquarter needs to integrate the subsidiary NPL into global strategy. There are two mechanisms to integrate subsidiaries’ activities during NPL process; coordination and control process. By testing the effect of each mechanism on role clarity and functional conflict, I found that coordination mechanism increase role clarity between headquarter and subsidiaries’ managers. In contrast, exercising control mechanism reduces role clarity and functional …