2013 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 139-150
A cross table was created to classify 25 overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies. They were classified under overseas subsidiaries with many expatriates and overseas subsidiaries with few expatriates, as well as overseas subsidiaries with sophisticated functions and overseas subsidiaries with non-sophisticated functions. From the results, it was evident that almost all overseas subsidiaries with sophisticated functions had many expatriates. Japanese companies are often singled out for their tendency to send many expatriates abroad in comparison to the multinational corporations of Europe and the USA. The sophisticated functions of those overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies were one cause for this tendency.
