The Effect of Headquarter Integration Mechanisms on Subsidiaries’ New Product Success: From Control to Coordination Mechanism

New product launching (NPL) to the local market by subsidiary managers is a strategic activity, which requires organizational supports from MNC global network. The NPL activity is marked by high level of uncertainty, risk, and market failure. Thus, a headquarter needs to integrate the subsidiary NPL...

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Main Author: Firmanzah Firmanzah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Indonesia 2013-07-01
Series:The South East Asian Journal of Management
Online Access:http://journal.ui.ac.id/index.php/tseajm/article/view/1790
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description New product launching (NPL) to the local market by subsidiary managers is a strategic activity, which requires organizational supports from MNC global network. The NPL activity is marked by high level of uncertainty, risk, and market failure. Thus, a headquarter needs to integrate the subsidiary NPL into global strategy. There are two mechanisms to integrate subsidiaries&rsquo; activities during NPL process; coordination and control process. By testing the effect of each mechanism on role clarity and functional conflict, I found that coordination mechanism increase role clarity between headquarter and subsidiaries&rsquo; managers. In contrast, exercising control mechanism reduces role clarity and functional conflict between headquarter and subsidiaries&rsquo; managers during NPL. This research shows that both role clarity and functional conflict increase new product commercial performance introduced by subsidiary in the local market. <br />Keywords: new product launching (NPL), coordination mechanism, control <br />mechanism, and new product performance
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spelling doaj.art-4f88664345cb4a9a8ecd3ee8c006ebcc2023-01-03T08:02:56ZengUniversitas IndonesiaThe South East Asian Journal of Management1978-19892355-66412013-07-011219121210.21002/seam.v1i2.17901319The Effect of Headquarter Integration Mechanisms on Subsidiaries’ New Product Success: From Control to Coordination MechanismFirmanzah Firmanzah0Universitas IndonesiaNew product launching (NPL) to the local market by subsidiary managers is a strategic activity, which requires organizational supports from MNC global network. The NPL activity is marked by high level of uncertainty, risk, and market failure. Thus, a headquarter needs to integrate the subsidiary NPL into global strategy. There are two mechanisms to integrate subsidiaries&rsquo; activities during NPL process; coordination and control process. By testing the effect of each mechanism on role clarity and functional conflict, I found that coordination mechanism increase role clarity between headquarter and subsidiaries&rsquo; managers. In contrast, exercising control mechanism reduces role clarity and functional conflict between headquarter and subsidiaries&rsquo; managers during NPL. This research shows that both role clarity and functional conflict increase new product commercial performance introduced by subsidiary in the local market. <br />Keywords: new product launching (NPL), coordination mechanism, control <br />mechanism, and new product performancehttp://journal.ui.ac.id/index.php/tseajm/article/view/1790
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