IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/jintbs/v24y1993i3p419-448.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Effectively Conceiving and Executing Multinationals′ Worldwide Strategies

Author

Listed:
  • W Chang Kim

    (The European Institute of Business Administration)

  • Renée A Mauborgne

    (The European Institute of Business Administration)

Abstract

This study addresses one of the most compelling questions in the field of international management: How can a multinational simultaneously pursue the double-ended objective of effectively conceiving and executing its worldwide strategy? Here we examine the ways in which the dynamics of the strategy-making process between head office and subsidiary units influence the multinational's ability to achieve these two objectives. Specifically, we introduce the concept of procedural justice, the intellectual root of which is grounded in social psychology and law, into the international management and explore the impact of process fairness on multinationals′ ability to conceive and execute effective worldwide strategies. The results of this research are based on a two-phase longitudinal study of the decision making dynamics of nineteen multinationals. They provide support that the exercise of procedural justice is indeed a powerful way to organize the multinationals′ strategy-making process. Procedural justice was found to significantly augment multinationals′ ability to achieve this double-ended objective.© 1993 JIBS. Journal of International Business Studies (1993) 24, 419–448

Suggested Citation

  • W Chang Kim & Renée A Mauborgne, 1993. "Effectively Conceiving and Executing Multinationals′ Worldwide Strategies," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 24(3), pages 419-448, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jintbs:v:24:y:1993:i:3:p:419-448
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/journal/v24/n3/pdf/8490239a.pdf
    File Function: Link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/journal/v24/n3/full/8490239a.html
    File Function: Link to full text HTML
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dooms, E., 2005. "Control in multidivisional firms : Levels issues and internal differentiation," Other publications TiSEM bc7c1906-d54c-46e5-9d8e-1, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    2. Brauer, Matthias & Heitmann, Mark, 2013. "Antecedents and temporal dynamics of strategic divergence in multinational corporations: Evidence from Europe," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 48(1), pages 110-121.
    3. Drogendijk, Rian & Holm, Ulf, 2012. "Cultural distance or cultural positions? Analysing the effect of culture on the HQ–subsidiary relationship," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 21(3), pages 383-396.
    4. Ricart, Joan E. & Enright, Michael J. & Ghemawat, Pankaj & Khanna, Tarun & Hart, Stuart L., 2003. "New frontiers in international strategy," IESE Research Papers D/532, IESE Business School.
    5. Lin, Shao-Lung & Hsieh, An-Tien, 2010. "International strategy implementation: Roles of subsidiaries, operational capabilities, and procedural justice," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 63(1), pages 52-59, January.
    6. Tihanyi, Laszlo & Thomas, Wayne B., 2005. "Information-processing demands and the multinational enterprise: a comparison of foreign and domestic earnings estimates," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 58(3), pages 285-292, March.
    7. Alain Verbeke & Wenlong Yuan, 2007. "Entrepreneurship in multinational enterprises: A Penrosean perspective," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 241-258, March.
    8. Sahaym, Arvin & Nam, Daeil, 2013. "International diversification of the emerging-market enterprises: A multi-level examination," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 22(2), pages 421-436.
    9. Lin, Shao-Lung & Hsieh, An-Tien, 2010. "The integration-responsiveness framework and subsidiary management: A response," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 63(8), pages 911-913, August.
    10. Samiee, Saeed & Athanassiou, Nicholas, 1998. "International Strategy Research: Cross-Cultural Methodology Implications," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 43(2), pages 79-96, October.
    11. Taggart, J. H., 1999. "MNC subsidiary performance, risk, and corporate expectations," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 8(2), pages 233-255, April.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:jintbs:v:24:y:1993:i:3:p:419-448. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.