Multinationals' response to major disasters: how does subsidiary investment vary in response to the type of disaster and the quality of country governance?

Strategic Management Journal - Tập 32 Số 6 - Trang 658-681 - 2011
Chang Hoon Oh1, Jennifer Oetzel2
1Department of Marketing, International Business, and Strategy, Faculty of Business, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
2International Business Department, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

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AbstractWe investigate the response of multinational corporations (MNCs) to major disasters at the subsidiary level. We examine the type and severity of the disaster and whether and how country governance moderates the relationship between exogenous disaster risk and subsidiary investment. We test our hypotheses with a panel dataset of 71 large European MNCs and their subsidiaries (2001–2006) with 31,285 total observations. Findings suggest that the number of a firm's foreign subsidiaries is likely to decrease in response to terrorist attacks or technological disasters but not natural disasters, regardless of the severity of the event. For terrorist activities, MNC subsidiary‐level disinvestment is less likely when the quality of host country governance is higher. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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