The impact of foreign ownership and control on the organizational identification of host country managers working at MNC subsidiaries
基于社会认同和自我分类理论，研究外资所有权和控制如何降低东道国经理对子公司的组织认同，并发现企业社会责任感知能缓解这种负面影响。
This study builds on social identity and self-categorization theories to examine how foreign ownership and control affect the organizational identification (OI) of host country national managers working at local subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). We suggest that the degree of foreign ownership and the extent of the foreign parent’s control over the subsidiary have negative effects on the strength with which the host country managers identify with the foreign-owned firm. The results from analyses of a sample of 428 Korean managers working at 43 MNC subsidiaries in Korea demonstrate the negative relationships between foreign ownership share and control, as exerted through mechanisms such as the centralization of decision-making authority by foreign headquarters and the assignment of expatriates to subsidiaries, and the OI of the host country managers. In addition, we found that the extent to which the foreign firm is perceived as being socially responsible within the host country mitigates the negative impact of foreign ownership and control on the OI of the host country managers.