Abstract
This paper aims to review the literature on foreign subsidiary performance to discuss the definition of “strong” foreign subsidiaries, whose performance is high, and how to build strong foreign subsidiaries. As a result, at first, foreign subsidiary performance are classified into four categories: financial performance, market performance, organizational performance, and position. Second, factors which are related to foreign subsidiary performance are classified into five categories: parent factors, subsidiary factors, corporate factors, local environment factors, and industry factors. Third, this paper clarifies there are few research about how to build strong foreign subsidiaries.
