Regarding functions other than human resource management, one of the
authors has elsewhere presented findings about MNC affiliate practices in
four functions: human resource management, marketing, financial control,
and manufacturing Whereas HRM practices are most
strongly influenced by local isomorphism, it was found that marketing and
manufacturing practices also tend to resemble local practices, although to a
distinctly lesser degree than HRM, but that financial control practices more
closely adhere to parent practices, and are therefore shaped mainly by a
need for internal consistency in the MNC.