... organization. We therefore advise our client to consider other factors when deciding on the degree of autonomy to grant to its subsidiaries. Introduction For the purpose of this report, the term "subsidiary" will be taken as "any operational unit controlled by the Multinational Corporation [in our case, TNC] and situated outside the home country" (Birkinshaw, 1997). The term "role ... 1984) categorised roles based on the degree of product scope, market scope and value added scope. Using a more novel approach, Gupta and Govindarajan (1991) categorised the roles of subsidiaries on the basi...

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