Leaving Home: An Institutional Perspective on Intermediary HQ Relocations

Alfredo Valentino; Jan Schmitt; Benno Koch; Phillip Christopher Nell

doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2018.08.004

Leaving Home: An Institutional Perspective on Intermediary HQ Relocations

Alfredo Valentino, Jan Schmitt, Benno Koch, Phillip Christopher Nell

Institut for Strategi og Innovation

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We investigate the effect of changing national institutions on relocations of intermediary HQs. Using a dataset of 154 cross-border relocations between the period from 2000 to 2015, we draw on the intermediary HQ’s middle position within the MNC and investigate how a decrease in institutional quality in the HQ’s host country and a change in institutional distance between different MNC units affect the relocation decision. Our findings advance the emergent literature on HQ relocations as well as our knowledge of intermediary HQs and the effect of changing institutions on organizational location choices. Beyond our theoretical contributions, we offer policy and managerial implications.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Journal of World Business
Vol/bind	54
Udgave nummer	4
Sider (fra-til)	273-284
Antal sider	12
ISSN	1090-9516
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.08.004
Status	Udgivet - jun. 2019

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Published online: 18 September 2018

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HQ relocation
Intermediary headquarters
Institutional quality
ICRG
Institutional distance
National governance system

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