Relationship between Internal Organisation and National Culture and Institutions
Abstract
Employing a firm-level research on internal organisation structure, this paper studies the influence of Japanese national culture and institutions on internal organisation design of a Japanese MNEs. I report that some output deriving from features of Japanese national culture and institutions such as collectivism and Long-term orientation have a strong impact on internal organisation, although it does not keep consistency with Japanese national culture and institutions.
Introduction
Globalisation can be described as the greater movement, which unites the people of the world by combining economic, technological, socio-cultural, and political factors. That is to say, due to integration of national economies into the international economies through trade, investment, capital flows, migration, and development of technology, it is more likely to make the world homogeneous. (Global education, 2008) Especially, Multi National Enterprises (MNEs) are considered as one of the factors to promote globalisation since they have introduced “universal product” to global markets. (Hollensen, 2007) Therefore, it is said that the feature of each countries’ national culture and institutions may become uniformly with the expansion of globalisation. In this report, I address and analyse this assumption in terms of one Japanese MNEs’ internal organisation. The structure of this paper is as follows: The first section is definition of national culture and institutions, and then I refer to Japanese national culture and institutions in section two. In section three, the structure and characteristics of internal organisation is explained. In section four, the influence of Japanese national cul ...