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Changes at Corporate Headquarters: Review, Integration and Future Research
Journal
International Journal of Management Reviews
ISSN
1460-8545
ISSN-Digital
1468-2370
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2015-07-01
Author(s)
Abstract
In modern corporations, the corporate headquarters (CHQ) unit is considered central to the fortune of the overall firm. In light of ever-changing environments, changes at the CHQ have become a crucial concern in management research and practice, and scholars have studied a variety of changes at the CHQ. Despite the common focus on the CHQ entity and the potential for cross-fertilization across several research tracks, a coherent picture of this dispersed body of knowledge is lacking. In this article, we review 25 years of research on changes at the CHQ. In so doing, we advance a common language and an overarching framework that integrates the existing knowledge in the intellectual domains of strategy, organizational design and international business research. On this basis, we suggest directions for future research to advance our knowledge of: (1) the pressure for and resistance to changes at the CHQ, (2) interrelationships among changes at the CHQ, (3) change processes at the CHQ, (4) agents involved in changes at the CHQ and (5) adaptive and disruptive effects of changes at the CHQ. Overall, the study provides a conceptual basis for combining the existing knowledge of changes at the CHQ and serves as a guide for future research.
Language
English
Keywords
Corporate headquarters
corporate strategy
corporate office
head office
headquarters
corporate headquarters change
strategic change
organizational-design change
relocation
relocations
multibusiness firm
multinational firm
multibusiness company
multinational company
multibusiness corporation
multinational corporation
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Responsible Corporate Competitiveness (RoCC)
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Blackwell Publ.
Publisher place
Oxford
Volume
17
Number
3
Start page
356
End page
381
Pages
26
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
231614