Othering practices toward new firm owners: empirical insights from South-North firm acquisitions in Germany

IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 Social Sciences
Franz Martin, Fuchs Martina, Henn Sebastian
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Abstract

By dealing with the process of othering in the context of acquisitions, this paper seeks to expand the concept of othering to Economic Geography. It argues that multinational companies should not only be viewed as victims of othering in that they suffer from obstructive policies and hostile public opinion, but rather that othering also matters within such firms. As a consequence of the links they establish between different countries, employees in such companies are constantly confronted with various socio-cultural backgrounds and frequently develop rather different expectations of how their counterparts should perform. This contribution analyses how and why managers and works councils in Germany practice distancing or othering towards owners of German firms located in China and India. It shows that othering can be critical within foreign direct investments. We approach the issue of othering by focusing on the sense of superiority of the involved parties, their positions in the company organisation and their related professional ethics, as well as the dynamics of othering that are mobilised in critical situations. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews from two different research projects.
对新公司所有者的其他做法:来自德国南北公司收购的经验见解
通过在收购背景下处理他者过程,本文试图将他者的概念扩展到经济地理学。它认为,跨国公司不仅应该被视为他人的受害者,因为他们遭受了阻碍性的政策和敌对的公众舆论,而且在这些公司内部,他人也很重要。由于他们在不同国家之间建立了联系,这些公司的员工不断面临着不同的社会文化背景,并且经常对他们的对手应该如何表现产生相当不同的期望。这篇文章分析了德国的管理人员和劳资委员会如何以及为什么与位于中国和印度的德国公司的所有者保持距离或其他方式。这表明,在外国直接投资中,其他因素可能至关重要。我们通过关注相关方的优越感、他们在公司组织中的地位和相关的职业道德,以及在关键情况下调动的他人的动态,来处理他人的问题。分析基于两个不同研究项目的定性访谈。
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