Subsidiary responses to institutional duality: Collective representation practices of US multinationals in Britain and Germany
研究了美国跨国公司在英国和德国的子公司如何应对母公司和东道国双重制度压力，聚焦于集体代表实践，揭示子公司管理层的回应策略如何受其与母公司和当地环境相互依赖的影响。
New institutionalist studies of human resource management in multinational companies argue that subsidiaries are faced with institutional duality-pressures to conform to parent company practices and to the local institutional environment in which they are based. To date, they have concentrated on how subsidiaries respond to parent company pressures. This article considers how subsidiary management responds to both parent company demands and host country pressures in trying to reconcile the challenges of institutional duality. It focuses on how such responses are shaped by the interdependence of subsidiary management with the parent company and the local environment. It does so by comparing case study evidence of collective representation practices in US-owned subsidiaries in Britain and Germany.