TY - JOUR
T1 - Why a multinational firm chooses expatriates
T2 - Integrating resource-based, agency and transaction costs perspectives
AU - Tan, Danchi
AU - Mahoney, J. T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support. This work was supported by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission; a Bloomsbury Studentship Award; the Medical Research Council (grant number MC_UU_12014/3); and the Wellcome Trust (grant number 204870/Z/16/Z).
PY - 2006/5
Y1 - 2006/5
N2 - This paper develops an integrative organizational economics framework explaining and predicting multinational firms' managerial resource deployments based on resource-based, agency, and transaction costs theories. Our empirical findings suggest that the governance decision for managerial services of multinational firms is influenced not only by the comparative capabilities of managers, but also by the economic costs to the firm of influencing the behaviours of managers through managerial contracting.
AB - This paper develops an integrative organizational economics framework explaining and predicting multinational firms' managerial resource deployments based on resource-based, agency, and transaction costs theories. Our empirical findings suggest that the governance decision for managerial services of multinational firms is influenced not only by the comparative capabilities of managers, but also by the economic costs to the firm of influencing the behaviours of managers through managerial contracting.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00598.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00598.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33646395396
SN - 0022-2380
VL - 43
SP - 457
EP - 484
JO - Journal of Management Studies
JF - Journal of Management Studies
IS - 3
ER -