Abstract

"Understanding "Appropriateness" in Multinational Corporations"

Danielle Cooper, Lorna Doucet, and Michael G. Pratt

First Author :

Danielle Cooper
Business Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1206 S. Sixth Street
350 Wohlers Hall, M/C 706
Champaign, IL 61820
USA

dcooper@uiuc.edu

Second Author :

Lorna Doucet
Business Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1206 S. Sixth Street
Room 350 Wohlers Hall, M/C 706
Champaign, IL 61820
USA

lmdoucet@uiuc.edu

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Third Author :

Michael G. Pratt
Business Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1206 S. Sixth Street
Room 350 Wohlers Hall, M/C 706
Champaign, IL 61820
USA

mpratt@uiuc.edu

http://www.business.uiuc.edu/faculty/pratt.html

Abstract :

Assessments of the appropriateness and inappropriateness of behaviors play an important role in interactions in multinational corporations (MNCs). We develop a model of appropriateness that that illustrates how various arrangements in MNCs (e.g., geocentric staffing) may work to influence the frequency of (in-) appropriateness assessments as well as the magnitude of reactions to such assessments via their influence on members’ ingroup-outgroup categorizations

Keywords :

appropriateness, intercultural, multinational corporations

Manuscript Received : 2005

Manuscript Published : 2005

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