Anne Jacqueminet Awarded for Her PhD Dissertation

THE BOCCONI PROFESSOR'S STUDY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CSR IN MNES' SUBSIDIARIES HAS OBTAINED THE HEC FOUNDATION DOCTORAL THESIS PRIZE

After the Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award, Anne Jacqueminet’s PhD dissertation, Heterogeneous Implementation of CSR in an MNE: the Role of Subsidiaries’ Institutional Contexts and Behaviors, has also received the 2016 HEC Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize.

The main objective of the dissertation is to explain heterogeneity in conformity within multinational enterprises (MNEs). More specifically, Jacqueminet (now an assistant professor at Bocconi’s Department of Management and Technology) focuses on what makes an MNE’s subsidiaries implement practices that are consistent with the policy designed by the MNE’s headquarters. The results show that heterogeneous conformity within MNEs stems not only from diverse internal and external pressures exerted on subsidiaries, but also from the subsidiaries’ varying levels of attention to normative demands that depend on peers’ behaviors, their heterogeneous internalization of the Group policy which reduces peers’ and headquarters’ influence and the specific characteristics and institutionalization levels of different practices.

by Fabio Todesco