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Marketing Channel Management by Multinational Corporations in Foreign Markets (Grewal et al.)

Multinational corporations require ongoing management of marketing channels, leading to challenges rooted in complex relationships between HQ-subsidiaries, subsidiaries-local channel partners, and third-party mediators at each host country level. For effective channel management, HQ should align subsidiary goals with HQ’s strategic motives and leverage subsidiary networks. This could be achieved by informal decision-making processes with subsidiaries to boost performance, or by moving employees across subsidiary networks.

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Corporate Board Interlocks and New Product Introductions (Srinivasan, Wuyts, and Mallapragada)

Firm’s board interlocks represent bridges to valuable market intelligence that could be used in developing incremental innovations and thus, could lead to new product developments and introductions. By analyzing new product introductions of 30 firms over the period of 1997 to 2012, Srinivasan et al. (2018) have found that the strength of the positive relationship between board interlocks and new product introductions depends on the board composition.