Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208664 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Copenhagen Discussion Papers No. 2018-66
Publisher: 
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Asia Research Centre (ARC), Frederiksberg
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to study the consequences of rolling out a global corporate culture on a multinational company in order to streamline modes of communication between headquarter and local offices across different host markets in an attempt to optimise the functionality of the organisation per se. Our key focus in this connection is to understand how employees in the Danish shipping company Maersk Line's headquarter in Copenhagen as well as in three local offices in Shanghai, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur 'read' and respond towards such an optimisation process. We focus in particular on how employees, based on their 'reading' of this process, try to make sense of it in order to construct personal strategies as guidelines for how to navigating the organization to their own and the company's advantage. The key question to research in this context is what elements enters into employees personal strategies when navigating a multinational organization? To answer this question we employ a phenomenological approach as a way of exploring the relationship between organizational changes and employers' response towards them. We argue that single case studies provides us with the capability of providing deep insight into the inner workings of a multinational organisation. Furthermore, such kind of studies shows how various societal factors within a host market impact on the functionality of employees in local offices as well as on the relationship between the latter and headquarter.
Subjects: 
International Business
Headquarter-subsidiary relations
Subsidiary-host markets relations
Employee
Strategies
Cross-cultural issues
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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