Internal Diversity and Culture’s Consequences: Branch/Head Office Relations in a German Financial MNC

Abstract

• The different subcultures within the branches of MNCs have as much impact on its functioning as the corporation's home and host cultures, but are less likely to be considered significant. • Taking as a case study the matrix integration of the London branch of a German MNC, I examine the reasons for, and results of, its managers' failure to take this internal diversity into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]