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Microfoundations of Strategic Agility in Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence of Italian MNEs in India

Journal of World Business, ISSN: 1090-9516, Vol: 57, Issue: 2, Page: 101272
2022
  • 77
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  • 260
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  • Citations
    77
    • Citation Indexes
      77
  • Captures
    260

Article Description

We propose the individual-level microfoundations of subsidiary CEOs in emerging markets as antecedents of the strategic agility of multinational enterprises, and subsidiary embeddedness as a key organizational-level moderator of these relationships. Combining quantitative data on subsidiary CEOs operating in India with qualitative interviews with Italian HQ counterparts, our results suggest that subsidiary CEOs’ tenure in emerging markets, along with their overall experience, affects MNE strategic agility positively. Similarly, CEOs’ cognitive characteristics - problem solving and reasoning, and language and communication skills (individual-level microfoundations) - affected strategic agility positively, while subsidiary embeddedness moderated these relationships in different ways, leaving space for fresh managerial and theoretical considerations.

Bibliographic Details

Alberto Ferraris; William Y. Degbey; Sanjay Kumar Singh; Stefano Bresciani; Sylvaine Castellano; Fabio Fiano; Jerome Couturier

Elsevier BV

Business, Management and Accounting; Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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