Title: Indian executives' perceptions of expatriate managers

Authors: Richa Awasthy, Rajen K. Gupta

Addresses: Organizational Behaviour Area, International Management Institute, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi 110016, India. ' Human Behaviour and Organizational Development Area, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon 122 001, India

Abstract: In this era of globalisation, the multinational companies from eastern and western part of the globe are opening their subsidiaries or Joint Ventures in the developing countries and posting the expatriates at different locations. The authors had undertaken the task of understanding the functioning of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in India. The data was collected from four MNCs (two from eastern countries, i.e. Japan and South Korea and two from western, i.e. Sweden and British) operating in India. One of the research objectives of the study was to understand the perception of Indian executives/workforce of the expatriates posted in India. The study inferred that the perception of Indian executives was more positive about the expatriates from the west than the expatriates from the eastern countries and can be suitably used for improving the interpersonal relationship of the employees of the parent company and the host country (developing countries).

Keywords: western expatriates; eastern expatriates; India; intercultural relations; expat managers; multinational corporations; MNCs; Japan; South Korea; Sweden; UK; United Kingdom; indigenous perceptions; European expatriates; Asian expatriates; developing countries; interpersonal relationships; executive perceptions.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2009.022342

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2009 Vol.2 No.2, pp.164 - 184

Published online: 01 Jan 2009 *

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