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Fernando, Dulini (2021) Challenging the cross-national transfer of diversity management in MNCs : exploring the ‘identity effects’ of diversity discourses. Human Relations, 74 (12). pp. 2126-2152. doi:10.1177/0018726720952838 ISSN 0018-7267.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720952838
Abstract
I develop a critique of the cross-national transfer of diversity management in multinational companies. Adopting a critical approach to diversity management, and considering diversity as a discourse, I examine how and why employees in an overseas subsidiary challenged the diversity practices transferred by their foreign parent company. Drawing on a case study of a Sri Lankan knowledge work firm that was in the process of implementing its Western parent company’s Diversity Management agenda, which they had had little input in shaping, I highlight how challenge is triggered by a desire to reject unfavourable subject positions attributed to individuals in transferred discourses of diversity and to reposition the self more favourably. My contribution involves showing how dynamic power relations between parents and subsidiaries shape the global transfer of diversity across MNCs, depicting subsidiary employees as agentic subjects as opposed to passive recipients.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Diversity in the workplace, International business enterprises -- Management, Discourse analysis | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0018-7267 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 74 | ||||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 2126-2152 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0018726720952838 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 July 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 July 2020 | ||||||||
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