Managerial Attention and MNE Subsidiary Initiative in the Offshore Oil Industry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The roots of subsidiary initiative – entrepreneurial actions taken by subsidiaries that can change their role within the broader corporation or even overall corporate strategy – has been broadly studied at the organizational and external environmental level. Following calls to consider the role of individual managers in the undertaking of subsidiary initiative, this paper adopts the Attention Based View to consider the mediating role of managerial attention in the subsidiary initiative process. Using interview data from MNE subsidiaries in the offshore oil industry in Newfoundland, Canada, we find that individual characteristics – most notably entrepreneurial background, local identity and degree of local embeddedness help direct the attention of local managers to the external environment. This increases the propensity for subsidiary initiative. When promoting initiatives, it is necessary to gain the attention and help reorient an ally with the headquarters top management team to facilitate approval. This paper helps expand understanding of subsidiary initiative in international business and the as yet understudied role of middle managers’ attention in determining the incidence and approval of initiatives.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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