Cultural friction in leadership beliefs and foreign-invested enterprise survival

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Koch, Pamela Tremain; Koch, Bradley; Menon, Tanya; Shenkar, Oded
• 署名单位: Grand Valley State University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2016.16
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 453-470
• 关键词: Event study; leadership theories; TRANSACTION COST THEORY; cultural friction; GLOBE; TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS; Cross-cultural management

摘要

Cultural friction posits that cultural differences may be either synergistic or disruptive, but does not specify when or how synergies or disruptions emerge. We theorize that synergies will emerge in foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) when cultural differences in leadership beliefs are less central to the host nation's cultural identity; while disruption will occur when differences are in more culturally central leadership beliefs. Analyzing survival data from 274 FIEs in China, we found support for these hypotheses with five of the six GLOBE leadership dimensions. As predicted, differences in the Participative and Team Oriented dimensions were associated with higher firm death, while differences in the Charismatic, Autonomous and Self-Protective dimensions were associated with firm survival. Our results indicate that while there are areas where differences may indeed need to be accepted or minimized, there are other areas where differences can be beneficial. This requires that managers identify more central aspects of local culture to determine whether to minimize differences or to leverage their synergistic potential.