Strategic imperatives, power and subsidiary performance: the transfer of human resource management practices in multinational companies operating in Poland's post-socialist banking industry

摘要

We examine the extent to which institutional influences account for the transfer of performance management systems in two foreign-owned banks, one German the other Irish, in Poland. While we find they were important, more important were the joint effects arising from the subsidiaries' times-of-acquisition, their pre-acquisition economic health, the international experience of the MNCs' management, headquarters-generated strategic imperatives and the political dynamics that ensued between corporate and local management.