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- Title
R&D employee tenure in MNC subsidiaries: the role of institutional distance and experience.
- Authors
Borah, Dhruba; Massini, Silvia; Piscitello, Lucia
- Abstract
Long tenure of research and development (R&D) employees helps organisations to utilise employees' knowledge over a sustained time period and strengthen their competitive advantage. It also allows organisations to benefit from the training investments made on their R&D employees. Thus, identifying the determinants of R&D employees' tenure is crucial for designing effective R&D employee retention strategies. This paper analyses the factors explaining R&D employees' tenure in the subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). Building on institutional theory, we claim that formal and informal institutional distance between MNCs' home and host country might lead to R&D employees' short tenure in subsidiaries. We further suggest that R&D employees' international experience and MNCs' host country experience play a moderating role. We find support for our hypotheses by mobilising an original database that combines patent data and the LinkedIn profiles of 939 R&D employees in 256 MNC subsidiaries in India.
- Subjects
INDIA; EMPLOYEE retention; SUBSIDIARY corporations; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; COMPETITIVE advantage in business
- Publication
R&D Management, 2023, Vol 53, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0033-6807
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/radm.12546