Micro-political aspects of mandate development and learning in local subsidiaries of multinational corporations
Abstract: "Beyond functional-structuralist approaches this paper sheds some light on micro political aspects of mandate development and learning processes in multinational corporations (MNC). As classical micro-political studies have shown, management behaviour and learning are not only constrained or enabled by certain structural and (national) cultural patterns, but have its own political agendas and are shaped by individual interests which leads to game playing, active or passive resistance and (re)negotiation of the 'rules of the game'. Based on the assumption that actors are neither the organs of given structures nor acting fully autonomous, the paper focuses on how subsidiary managers interpret and integrate individual, organisational as well as home and host country institutional factors into certain strategies of action. By discussing critical events in mini case studies on mandate development and learning in German subsidiaries in France we will highlight the interactive dynamics be
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Mikropolitische Aspekte der Mandatsentwicklung und das Lernen in lokalen Tochtergesellschaften multinationaler Unternehmen
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 25 S.
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
- Bibliographic citation
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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Organisationen und Wissen, Abteilung Internationalisierung und Organisation ; Bd. 2005-202
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Auslandsniederlassung
Deutsch
Führungskräfte
Lernprozess
Theorie
Frankreich
Auslandsniederlassung
Führungskraft
Lernkurve
Mikropolitik
Frankreich
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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2005
- Creator
- Contributor
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-117391
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:25 AM CEST
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Associated
- Dörrenbächer, Christoph
- Geppert, Mike
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Time of origin
- 2005
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