Subsidiary staffing, cultural friction, and subsidiary performance: Evidence from Korean subsidiaries in 63 countries
- Authors
- Singh, Deeksha; Pattnaik, Chinmay; Lee, Jeoung Yul; Gaur, Ajai S.
- Issue Date
- Mar-2019
- Publisher
- WILEY PERIODICALS, INC
- Keywords
- international HRM; international management; international strategy; strategic HR
- Citation
- HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, v.58, no.2, pp.219 - 234
- Journal Title
- HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- Volume
- 58
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 219
- End Page
- 234
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/1887
- DOI
- 10.1002/hrm.21947
- ISSN
- 0090-4848
- Abstract
- Drawing from the notion of cultural friction and based on the agency theory rationalization of multinational enterprise (MNE) headquarter-subsidiary relationship, we examine the impact of cultural friction in foreign subsidiaries on subsidiary performance. We argue that cultural friction, arising due to a high presence of parent country nationals (PCNs) in culturally distant locations, has a detrimental effect on subsidiary performance. This effect is the strongest when the cultural friction is at the top management team (TMT) level and the weakest when friction is at the regular employee level. However, this relationship is contingent on factors that work as drags or lubricants for cultural friction between PCNs and host country nationals (HCNs). We identify governance mode and language differences between home and host countries as drag parameters and host country experience and subsidiary interdependence as lubricants that condition the effect of cultural friction on subsidiary performance. Empirical findings based on a longitudinal sample of 7,495 foreign subsidiary observations of 467 Korean MNEs in 63 countries during 1990-2014 provide robust support for our theoretical predictions.
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