Sending expats or hiring locals? The impact of communication barriers on foreign subsidiary CEO staffing
作者： Helene Tenzer , Hendrik Klier , Christian Schwens , Matthias Schulz
DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2019.10016817
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摘要: Communication between headquarters (HQs) and foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs) is crucial for coordination, control, knowledge transfer, but language barriers geographic distance impede this exchange. Hypothesising that MNCs react to these hurdles by appointing subsidiary top managers with adequate communication skills, we investigate how the native barrier, HQs a influence choice parent host/third country nationals as CEOs. Testing our hypotheses on sample 101 staffing decisions made German firms in 33 countries, find negligible effect establish barrier enhances higher lowers firms' propensity staff CEO positions nationals. An MNC's international experience was found moderate relationships.
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