Local Responses to Global Integration in a Transnational Professional Service Firm
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In: Journal of Professions and Organization, Vol. 3, No. 1, jov008, 01.09.2016, p. 39-61.
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T1 - Local Responses to Global Integration in a Transnational Professional Service Firm
AU - Klimkeit, Dirk
AU - Reihlen, Markus
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - This study examines the transfer of management practices from a regional headquarters to the local subsidiaries in a transnational professional service firm. Using an in-depth case study of a top-tier transnational professional service firm, we develop an empirically grounded theory. We analyse how partners of local subsidiaries responded to a global integration initiative and identify contingencies that influenced partners' responses to pressures of conformity from the regional headquarters. We found a broad diversity of responses ranging from complying to open resistance when adopting the management practice locally. This diversity of responses is explained by three major categories emerging from our data - local fit, linking practices, and subsidiary resources. By focusing our attention on individual actors and their responses in the light of a multiplicity of institutional interests, norms, and beliefs, this article seeks to expand the global-local debate in multinational corporations.
AB - This study examines the transfer of management practices from a regional headquarters to the local subsidiaries in a transnational professional service firm. Using an in-depth case study of a top-tier transnational professional service firm, we develop an empirically grounded theory. We analyse how partners of local subsidiaries responded to a global integration initiative and identify contingencies that influenced partners' responses to pressures of conformity from the regional headquarters. We found a broad diversity of responses ranging from complying to open resistance when adopting the management practice locally. This diversity of responses is explained by three major categories emerging from our data - local fit, linking practices, and subsidiary resources. By focusing our attention on individual actors and their responses in the light of a multiplicity of institutional interests, norms, and beliefs, this article seeks to expand the global-local debate in multinational corporations.
KW - Management studies
KW - global integration
KW - multinational corporation
KW - practice transfer
KW - professional service firm
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028949127&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/jpo/jov008
DO - 10.1093/jpo/jov008
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 3
SP - 39
EP - 61
JO - Journal of Professions and Organization
JF - Journal of Professions and Organization
SN - 2051-8803
IS - 1
M1 - jov008
ER -