Chen, Tain-Jy; Chen, Homin; Ku, Ying-Hua - In: Journal of World Business 47 (2012) 2, pp. 259-266
In this paper, we treat the multinational firm as an internal market in which various business units compete for scarce resources. By using the resource dependence theory to examine the parent–subsidiary relationship, we view this relationship as more of a political coalition than a hierarchy....