Subsidiary development and sister subsidiaries of Japanese firms in emerging countries

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380522
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: J. F. Oberlin University (2014-2016); Tokyo International University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: SAITO Yasuhiro 桜美林大学, 経済・経営学系, 准教授 (50296224)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 多国籍企業 / 子会社進化 / 新興国

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research project was to understand subsidiary development in relation to other sister subsidiaries located same country or other countries. Our empirical studies on the plant location choice of Japanese auto parts manufacturers in ASEAN revealed that time-weighted average distance had impact on the plant location choices. This results imply the experience accumulated by the firm affects subsequent foreign market entries. Thus the location strategy is influenced more by the characteristics of “home base” than those of home country (Zhou and Guillen, 2015). Moreover our case studies on Japanese electric manufacturers showed some subsidiaries developed their role by transferring their function to the sister subsidiaries located in other countries, by expanding their products and services, and by entering new markets.

Free Research Field

国際ビジネス