Overt employment discrimination in MNC affiliates: home-country cultural and institutional effects
Using job announcements posted by MNC subsidiaries in Taiwan and Thailand, we investigated the effects of MNC home-country cultural and institutional forces on the use of employment gender and age discriminatory criteria in host countries where anti-discrimination legislation was absent. We examined the cultural effects with composite measures taken from the work of Hofstede and Schwartz. The effects of the existence of anti-age and anti-gender discrimination employment legislation in an MNC home country were also assessed to control for institutional factors. Logit analysis shows that MNC home-country culture and institutional environment can have a strong impact on the use of discriminatory criteria by MNCs in host countries, at least those lacking protective legislation. Specifically, MNCs based in countries that have existing and effective age and gender discrimination laws, and have more individualist and less masculine cultures, are less likely to engage in at least overt gender-based and age-based discrimination. Journal of International Business Studies (2008) 39, 772–794. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400376
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2008
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Authors: | Wu, Cindy ; Lawler, John J ; Yi, Xiang |
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Journal of International Business Studies. - Palgrave Macmillan, ISSN 0047-2506. - Vol. 39.2008, 5, p. 772-794
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