Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing

We investigate how internal sharing of values and knowledge in multinational enterprises (MNEs) influences the relationship between external national cultural distance and the adoption of subsidiary initiatives by headquarters. We draw on management control and knowledge-based theories and use a sam...

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Autores: Kumar, Maya, Williams, Christopher
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:IE
Repositorio:Repositorio IE
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/3722
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.7202/1095747ar
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3722
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas ::5311.04 Organización de recursos humanos
ODS 17 - Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
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spelling Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharingKumar, MayaWilliams, Christopher53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas ::5311.04 Organización de recursos humanosODS 17 - Alianzas para lograr los objetivosWe investigate how internal sharing of values and knowledge in multinational enterprises (MNEs) influences the relationship between external national cultural distance and the adoption of subsidiary initiatives by headquarters. We draw on management control and knowledge-based theories and use a sample of 111 subsidiaries across various cultures and industries in the empirical test. As hypothesized, national cultural distance has a negative impact on subsidiary initiative diffusion, while organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing have positive effects. Internal values sharing does little to overcome the negative impact of national cultural distance, while internal knowledge sharing dampens this effect. Implications for MNE managers and research are discussed.yesPublishedManagement internationalhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm75202520252022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.7202/1095747arhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3722reponame:Repositorio IEinstname:IEInglésIE Business SchoolIE UniversityEntrepreneurshipAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/37222026-06-15T12:40:57Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing
title Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing
spellingShingle Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing
Kumar, Maya
53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas ::5311.04 Organización de recursos humanos
ODS 17 - Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
title_short Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing
title_full Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing
title_fullStr Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing
title_full_unstemmed Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing
title_sort Diffusing MNE subsidiary initiatives across national cultural distance: The role of organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kumar, Maya
Williams, Christopher
author Kumar, Maya
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Williams, Christopher
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas ::5311.04 Organización de recursos humanos
ODS 17 - Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
topic 53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas ::5311.04 Organización de recursos humanos
ODS 17 - Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
description We investigate how internal sharing of values and knowledge in multinational enterprises (MNEs) influences the relationship between external national cultural distance and the adoption of subsidiary initiatives by headquarters. We draw on management control and knowledge-based theories and use a sample of 111 subsidiaries across various cultures and industries in the empirical test. As hypothesized, national cultural distance has a negative impact on subsidiary initiative diffusion, while organizational values sharing and knowledge sharing have positive effects. Internal values sharing does little to overcome the negative impact of national cultural distance, while internal knowledge sharing dampens this effect. Implications for MNE managers and research are discussed.
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