The cultural dependence of vocational training

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Beck, Nikolaus; Kabst, Ruediger; Walgenbach, Peter
• 署名单位: Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Justus Liebig University Giessen; Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2008.112
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 1374-1395
• 关键词: training and development; business systems; INSTITUTIONALISM; Cross-cultural research/measurement issues; cross-cultural diffusion

摘要

Do headquarters influence the subsidiaries' arrangements of vocational training in foreign countries? Our analyses of the amount of training offered to employees by organizations in 14 countries in which different training systems prevail (either continuing vocational training or initial vocational training) show that the cultural models of training diffuse between training systems in both directions. Independent from their own location, headquarters have the power to export their expectations concerning the training of employees to their subsidiaries that are located in countries with training systems different from those of the headquarters. This result is in accordance with the country-of-origin effect. Journal of International Business Studies (2009) 40, 1374-1395. doi: 10.1057/jibs.2008.112