Intercultural Subsidiary Management
A Cross-Country Analysis
of Slovenia, Germany,
Austria and Denmark
Rune Ellemose Gulev
December 2007
204 str., 16 × 24 cm
ISBN 978-961-6573-64-1
Klubska cena 14,40 €
Običajna cena 24,00 €
Variations in economic culture between European Union (EU) countries influence the management policies of multinational companies and thwarts the fluency with which international subsidiary management is conducted. This book methodically examines four dimensions through which economic culture can be measured and compared between four EU countries: Slovenia, a new Central European entrant into the EU, and Germany, Austria and Denmark, three elder EU members, and projects their respective economic culture impacts onto the management of international subsidiaries. The results confirm that there exists considerable differences in economic cultures between the four countries and that the differences have a direct impact on international management. Most notably, strong evidence suggests that capitalistic driven economic cultures and organizational output control utilization are positively correlated and authoritative economic culture levels and organizational decentralization levels are negatively correlated. Equally, strong evidence was found that an increase in interpersonal and institutional trust driven economic culture positively influences the vehicles conducive of horizontal knowledge sharing.