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| Author: | Moore, F. |
| Title: | Strategy, power and negotiation: social control and expatriate managers in a German multinational corporation |
| Journal: | International journal of human resource management
2006 : MAR, VOL. 17:3, p. 399 413 |
| Index terms: | human resource management Germany managers subsidiary companies strategy |
| Freeterms: | social control ethnography multinational corporations expatriates |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The article discusses the HRM within the relationships between head offices and subsidiaries and the uses of expatriates in the corporate strategies. The author focuses on the previous literature arguing that expatriates are used by head offices mainly for social control. Ervin Goffmans theories of strategic self-presentation are applied to investigate an ethnographic study of expatriate employees of a German multinational bank. The results show that both the local managers and expatriates themselves employ their positions strategically to negotiate according to their own interests. This leads to a situation that is characterized by dynamic negotiation between different groups with different strategies participating in certain forms of self-presentation in which no particular group eventually wins. The author concludes with arguments on how new ways of international management in theory and practice should be considered and the strategies of individuals and groups within the multinational corporations should be explored. |
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