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Foreign affiliate performance: independence, location and parental control

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  • Driffield, Nigel
  • Love, James H.
  • Menghinello, Stefano
  • Song, Meng

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This paper examines the causes of foreign affiliate performance, exploring the importance of the relationships between affiliates and parents in explaining apparent performance differences. By making use of a large firm level database, linking firm level data to numerous sources of official country level data, we explore the importance of headquarters effects, affiliate level effects, and location effects in terms of firm performance. Further, we contrast the effects in terms of both productivity and profitability. Affiliate-level factors explain most of affiliate performance. There are parent-level influences on affiliate performance, but not from the parent's location. Our analysis provides insights into the interaction of parent (i.e. HQ) attributes with those of the foreign affiliate, as well as the locations of both HQ and affiliate, and thus provides insights into the complexity of these relationships.

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  • Driffield, Nigel & Love, James H. & Menghinello, Stefano & Song, Meng, 2026. "Foreign affiliate performance: independence, location and parental control," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:157:y:2026:i:c:s0264999326000258
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2026.107496
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