Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on regional headquarters (RHQ) in order to provide a framework for an enhanced understanding of the RHQ phenomenon and to suggest a future research agenda for RHQ research. Using a systematic literature review, 56 academic journal articles and book chapters were analyzed, covering a period of over 50 years from 1967 to 2019. The key contribution is an analytical framework that constructs RHQ as a combination of role and geographic scope. It suggests four characteristic attributes to distinguish RHQ from other organizational units, namely intermediacy, terminability, triple-embeddedness, and sensitivity to change. Another main contribution to international business research is a future RHQ research agenda, with topics including the geographic scope of RHQ, the intermediate and performance outcomes of RHQ, intermediacy and triple embeddedness, and RHQ dynamism.
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