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Power Inequality in Cross-cultural Learning: The Case of Japanese Transplants in China

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  • Jacky F. L. Hong
  • Robin S. Snell

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This article considers power inequality in the context of cross-cultural organizational learning. A qualitative study of five Japanese subsidiaries operating in the People's Republic of China revealed that the Japanese had invested considerable effort into replicating and reinforcing the corporate values, norms, policies and collective learning practices from their home country. Through control of organizational resources and through all-embracing culture transformation programmes, they had leveraged their dominant power to standardize the social construction of collective learning processes and impose these upon the local Chinese. It is noted that these programmes raise the spectre of de-culturalization, namely, removal of Chinese identity and cloning of Japanese identity, and pass opportunities to implement alternative programmes based on libertarian education philosophies that could drive a bilaterally negotiated approach to cross-cultural integration.

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  • Jacky F. L. Hong & Robin S. Snell, 2008. "Power Inequality in Cross-cultural Learning: The Case of Japanese Transplants in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 253-273, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:apbizr:v:14:y:2008:i:2:p:253-273
    DOI: 10.1080/13602380701314750
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    1. Heizmann, Helena & Fee, Anthony & Gray, Sidney J., 2018. "Intercultural Knowledge Sharing Between Expatriates and Host-country Nationals in Vietnam: A Practice-based Study of Communicative Relations and Power Dynamics," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 24(1), pages 16-32.
    2. Joanna Crossman & Hiroko Noma, 2013. "Sunao as Character: Its Implications for Trust and Intercultural Communication Within Subsidiaries of Japanese Multinationals in Australia," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 113(3), pages 543-555, March.

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