The lower the level of trust the employee in the subsidiary feels towards the HQ, the greater the difficulty to transfer knowledge from the parent company to the subsidiary.
The greater the lack of cultural alignment between the national culture of individuals in the subsidiary versus those in the HQ, in terms of their individualistic versuscollective orientation, the greater the difficulty in transferring knowledge from the parent company to the subsidiary
The greater the lack of cultural alignment between the national culture of individualsin the subsidiary versus those in the HQ, in terms of their power-distanceperceptions, the greater the difficulty in transferring knowledge from the parentcompany to the subsidiary.
The more individuals embrace diversity among the employees in the workplace,the easier it is to transfer knowledge.