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| Author: | Colakoglu, S. Caligiuri, P. |
| Title: | Cultural distance, expatriate staffing and subsidiary performance: the case of US subsidiaries of multinational corporations |
| Journal: | International journal of human resource management
2008 : FEB, VOL. 19:2, p. 223-239 |
| Index terms: | culture multinational companies subsidiary companies |
| Freeterms: | expatriates |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper deals with cultural distance and the use of parent country expatriates in the US subsidiaries of 52 multinational corporations. Hypotheses based on transaction costs theory are tested, and the results indicate that firms tend to rely more heavily on parent country expatriates whenever cultural distance from the subsidiary occurs. The paper also states that multinational corporations face a bounded rationality problem in staffing those subsidiaries, which are culturally distant. |
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