The cultural dependence of vocational training

Nikolaus Beck, Rüdiger Kabst and Peter Walgenbach
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Nikolaus Beck: University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
Rüdiger Kabst: University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany
Peter Walgenbach: Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena

Journal of International Business Studies, 2009, vol. 40, issue 8, 1374-1395

Abstract: Do headquarters influence the subsidiaries' arrangements of vocational training in foreign countries? Our analyses of the amount of training offered to employees by organizations in 14 countries in which different training systems prevail (either continuing vocational training or initial vocational training) show that the cultural models of training diffuse between training systems in both directions. Independent from their own location, headquarters have the power to export their expectations concerning the training of employees to their subsidiaries that are located in countries with training systems different from those of the headquarters. This result is in accordance with the country-of-origin effect.

Date: 2009
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