Sending expats or hiring locals The impact of communication barriers on foreign subsidiary CEO staffing

Tenzer, Helene; Schulz, Matthias; Klier, Hendrik; Schwens, Christian

doi:10.1504/ejim.2020.109819

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“…Similarly, Sima et al (2020) underlined that new jobs will require employees to have new skills, especially digital ones. It is also worth mentioning that the communication skills stated by the experts participating in the study is consisted with the results of Tenzer et al (2020, p. 912). This means that communicative aspects are important and language differences do not affect the company’s decision regarding international cooperation.…”

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“…Moreover, efficient communication is the key element for any kind of international cooperation with posted workers. But this is not always easy to achieve due to different national languages, limitations in communication tools (lack of good quality internet or politically suppressed IT tools) or different levels of English across the world (Tenzer et al, 2020, p. 892).…”

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Impact of Industry 4.0 Technology on International Posting of Workers

2023

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Posting of workers is a common reality in all EU Member States and in all export-oriented industries. The problem relates to existing travel restrictions in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic and in the context of the carbon footprint of business travel. In this context, the development of new Industry 4.0 technologies plays a significant role. The aim of the article is to identify the impact of Industry 4.0 technology on the international posting of workers in light of the COVID-19 pandemic on example of the German chemical industry. The basis of the analysis are two factor conditions of the Diamond Model of M.E. Porter: innovation and human capital. A qualitative study was conducted with experts in Industry 4.0 that regularly post workers. The results indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace of technology adoption (especially Augmented Reality cluster). Industry 4.0 technologies enable companies to reduce the posting of workers. For this purpose, IT skills are now the most important, followed by communication, flexibility, and openness, as well as soft, team and didactic skills. JEL Codes: F23, J61, O33

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Impact of Industry 4.0 Technology on International Posting of Workers

2023

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“…According to literature, factors influencing expatriate staffing strategies include host country characteristics, characteristics of multinational companies (e. g. stage of internationalization and investors' decision-making behaviour), subsidiary characteristics (e. g. size and task complexity), and the cultural distance between the headquarters and the subsidiary company. (Boyacigiller, 1990;Gong, 2003a;Stroh et al, 2005, Brisco et al, 2009Reiche & Harzing, 2011;Thomas & Peterson, 2018;Tarique & Schuler 2018;Qasim et al, 2019;Singh et al, 2019;Bebenroth & Froese, 2020;Tenzer et al, 2020) Host country differences that can explain variations in HRM strategies and practices in subsidiary operations are not exclusively cultural ones but include institutional differences, as well (Vaiman & Brewster, 2015;Meuer et al, 2019). For example, the institutional distance between home and host country affects how directly the HQ of multinational company controls subsidiary operations.…”

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Relationship between Cultural Origin of Multinational Companies and Employing Expatriates in Foreign Subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe

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Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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In the present study, we examine the question of whether the cultural characteristics of the country of the parent company are related to the posting practices of the parent company. According to our hypothesis, the management culture of the sending (parent) company influences the employment of foreign expats in local subsidiaries. In this research we use interviews and multivariate statistical analysis of survey data from five CEE countries, an important but relatively less examined region for global HR mobility. We found a significant relationship between cultural differences and expatriate assignment practices of MNCs. However, based on the strength of the relationship, we can conclude that in addition to management culture, other influencing factors typically influence posting decisions. Our results support Hofstede’s suggestion about the cultural dependence of management methods from a specific, management of expatriates, perspective.

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