Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207302 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7911
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational firms about transplanting the mode of organization to other countries. We test the theory with original and matched parent and affiliate data on the level of decentralization of 660 Austrian and German multinational firms and 2200 of their affiliate firms in Eastern Europe. We find that three factors stand out in promoting the multinational firm’s decision to transplant the organisational form to the affiliate firm in the host country: a competitive host market, the human resource policy of the multinational firm, and when an innovative technology is transferred to the host country. These factors increase the respective probabilities of organizational transfer by 7, 21, and 24 percentage points.
Subjects: 
organizational economics of multinational firms
trade and organisation
the theory of the firm
organizational transfer between countries
JEL: 
D23
F12
F23
F61
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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