Leaving home: An institutional perspective on intermediary HQ relocations

Valentino, Alfredo; Schmitt, Jan; Koch, Benno and Nell, Phillip C. (2019): Leaving home: An institutional perspective on intermediary HQ relocations. In: Journal of World Business, Vol. 54, No. 4: pp. 273-284

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Munich School of Management > Institute for Human Resource Education and Management
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• ISSN: 1090-9516
• Language: English