Journal article

Publication year: 2009

Pages: 1374-1395

Journal: Journal of International Business Studies

Volume number: 40

Issue number: 8

ISSN: 0047-2506

eISSN: 1478-6990

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2008.112

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 
Do headquarters influence the subsidiaries' arrangements of vocational training in foreign countries? Our analyses of the amount of training offered to employees by organizations in 14 countries in which different training systems prevail (either continuing vocational training or initial vocational training) show that the cultural models of training diffuse between training systems in both directions. Independent from their own location, headquarters have the power to export their expectations concerning the training of employees to their subsidiaries that are located in countries with training systems different from those of the headquarters. This result is in accordance with the country-of-origin effect. Journal of International Business Studies (2009) 40, 1374-1395. doi: 10.1057/jibs.2008.112

Harvard Citation style: Beck, N., Kabst, R. and Walgenbach, P. (2009) The cultural dependence of vocational training, Journal of International Business Studies, 40(8), pp. 1374-1395. https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2008.112

APA Citation style: Beck, N., Kabst, R., & Walgenbach, P. (2009). The cultural dependence of vocational training. Journal of International Business Studies. 40(8), 1374-1395. https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2008.112