Identifying Liabilities of Foreigness and Strategies to Minimize Their Effects : The Case of Labor Lawsuit Judgement in The United States  

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Mezias, John M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Strategic Management Journal vol. 23 no. 3 (2002), page 229-244.
Topik: Strategies; liability of foreigness; host country adaptation; legal environment; labor lawsuit hudgements; foreign subsidiary management

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS30.8 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Most foreign direct investment (FDI) theories assume that foreign subsidiaries are at a disadvantage relative to domestic firms : that is, they suffer a liability of foreigsness. Following this reasoning, most FDI research has focused on advantages foreign investors must possess to overcome whatever disadvantages they face. Research directly investigating the sources of foreign subsidiary disadvantages has been notably lacking, despite the fact that understanding disadvantages could uncover ways to reduce exposure to these liabilities of foreignness and improve management of FDI. This study focuses on whether labor lawsuit judgement represent a liability for foreign subsidiaries operating in the united states (U. S.). Speciifically, I tested whether 486 british, german, and japanese subsidiaries operating in the U. S. had more labor lawsuits brought to judgement than a matched sample os U. S. - owned firms. Result indicate that foreign subsidiaries faced significantly more labor lawsuit judgements facing foreign subsidiaries. Foreign subsidiaries who used american top officers or whose parent firms had more U. S. operations faced fewer lawsuits, while foreign subsidiaries using human resource professionals actually faced more labor lawsuit judgements. Implications of these findings and avenues for future research are discussed.

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