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Contextual Moderating Effects and the Relationship of Firm-Specific Resources, Strategy, Structure and Performance among Japanese Multinational Enterprises

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This paper develops and tests a path analytic model of resource value-strategy-structure-performance relationships for multinational enterprises (MNEs) in which resource and strategic variables are interdependent.

The model is tested using multi-year data from a sample of large Japanese industrial MNEs in order to examine the effects of keiretsu membership on hypothesized relationships.

The authors acknowledge the assistance of Daiwa Securities and the comments and assistance of Colette Fray ne, Karin Fladmoe-Lindquist, and Shige Makino.

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  1. Management Department, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT, USA

    Stephen B. Tallman (Professor of Management) & David M. Olsen (Adjunct Assistant Professor)

  2. College of Business, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

    J. Michael Geringer (Professor of Strategy and International Management)

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Tallman, S.B., Geringer, J.M., Olsen, D.M. (2004). Contextual Moderating Effects and the Relationship of Firm-Specific Resources, Strategy, Structure and Performance among Japanese Multinational Enterprises. In: Brock, D.M., Birkinshaw, J. (eds) Management International Review. Journal of International Business. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-90999-2_6

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