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Understanding ‘appropriateness’ in multinational organizations
Author(s) -
Cooper Danielle,
Doucet Lorna,
Pratt Michael
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.440
Subject(s) - staffing , multinational corporation , psychology , outgroup , cohesion (chemistry) , social psychology , group cohesiveness , ingroups and outgroups , political science , management , economics , chemistry , organic chemistry , law
Abstract Assessments of the appropriateness and inappropriateness of behaviors may influence conflict, cohesion, and goal attainment in multinational organizations (MNOs). We develop a model of appropriateness that illustrates how various arrangements in MNOs (e.g., geocentric staffing) may work to influence the likelihood of (in‐) appropriateness assessments as well as the magnitude of the reactions (positive or negative) to such assessments via their influence on members' ingroup‐outgroup categorizations. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.