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Strategy and structure of service multinationals and their impact on linkages with local firms
Miozzo, Marcela; Yamin, Mo; Ghauri, Pervez N
The Service Industries Journal. 2012;32(7):1171-1191.
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Abstract
Drawing on case studies of two leading UK service firms in five host countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, Korea and Malaysia), we examine how the strategy and organization of service multinationals shape the development of linkages with local firms in host economies. We find that there is reduced autonomy of subsidiaries to engage with local firms as a result of relatively centralized strategies of multinationals. Because of global policies ensuring consistency of services or global sourcing policies to reduce costs, service multinationals tend to prefer global suppliers. Backward linkages occur in a few cases when the relationship can be a vehicle for market expansion for the multinational in a particular host market. Local governments play an important role in the cases where backward linkages are developed.
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- DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02642069.2012.662492