Morning Bedi!

I see two interesting options for your research:

1. Path dependency theory might explain the issue very good. In your example, you would investigate something like "path merger". On the one hand, the company is path dependent: it has usual policies, routines, rituals. On the other hand, a newcomer has his own habits and rituals. How the merger of these two paths happens would be an interesting research question! David (1985) wrote a paper on path dependence theory. Sydow and colleagues (2009) have a newer ideas on the theory.  Snd there is a paper (if I am correct) by Koch, Eisend and another author. The researchers measured path dependency using an experiment. 

2. Relational models theory might also be helpful. Look for the papers by Fiske (1992), Haslam (2004), and others for research. You can also find a short overview on our paper (Bogodistov & Lizneva, 2016). According to the theory, there are 4 basic models of relationships and we use all of them: specific model in specific situation/relationship. What happens if one learned a specific model for his working relationship and the new firm relies on the other one? How is the change occurring: is one fitting to his/her usual model, just making a "facade", or is this "facade" only short-term and a transition a new model? In the paper by Fiske / Haslam is a questionnaire which you can use for your firm.

Sincerely,

Eugene

References:

Bogodistov, Y., & Lizneva, A. (2017). Ideological shift and employees’ relationships: Evidence from Ukraine. Baltic Journal of Management, 12(1), 25–45.

David, P. A. (1985). Clio and the economics of QWERTY. American Economic Review, 75(2), 332–337.

Fiske, A. P. (1991). Structures of social life: The four elementary forms of human relations: Communal sharing, authority ranking, equality matching, market pricing. New York, NY: Free Press.

Haslam, N. (2004). Relational models theory: A contemporary overview. Psychology Press.

Haslam, N., & Fiske, A. P. (1999). Relational models theory: a confirmatory factor analysis. Personal Relationships, 6(2), 241–250. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6811.1999.tb00190.x

Koch, J., Eisend, M., & Petermann, A. (2009). Path dependence in decision-making processes: Exploring the impact of complexity under increasing returns. BuR - Business Research, 2(1), 67–84.

Sydow, J., Schreyögg, G., & Koch, J. (2009). Organizational path dependence: Opening the black box. Academy of Management Review, 34(4), 689–709.

Dear Colleagues,

You should read some textbooks before to go further. For instance the book Survey in social research by David De Vaus and the one of the same author on Research design in social research. This should be especially useful because I note some conceptual errors in your question: your hypothesis is not an hypothesis, among other errors.

Regards,

You should have been presented a model firstly to show some variables and their impacts on each other which are in your purpose. In this way, you need to find relevant model to start observations and relevant analysis accordingly.

So you should start by Delphi or ELECTRE or even any MCDM methods to find your conceptual model. Then you are able to choose any tool in accordance to your model of the study.

In the following and after modeling, you can use the survey or data for relevant questioner.

To understand more about your study structure have a look at the book written by Quivy, Raymond, and Campenhoudt, Luc Van titled as "Manuel De Recherché En Sciences Sociales" which is very useful for sociological-managerial studies.

Note that firstly you need to achieve a conceptual model for your study in which it should be explained.

email me on [email protected] about this

regards

John Burgoyne

 I agree with Adrien Bonache; I see no clearly defined research question, nor do I detect a clear hypothesis. Furthermore, as stated, it is not clear whether it is the organization or the individual in possession of the unique, readily apparent characteristic. Nevertheless, it seems possible that you might be looking at the relationship between organizational culture and some type of behavior among expats in a particular setting or settings. Once these variables are sorted out, the instrument identification will be clearer...

Hi

Your question, I would not call it a hypothesis, strikes me as much more suited to realist  ethnography.

My experience of being an expat and visiting expat offices is now thirty years old but I recall expats being very selective in conforming to host country rather than home country norms.

The best way to address this type of hypothesis is a vignette research design. When you start developing this research design, you'll discover that your hypothesis needs to be dissected in several separate causal statements - as also suggested by several others above.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignette_(psychology)

@ George's Rome: Very interesting perspective; however, a causal rela

Dear Mehr Bedi, your question is more like a case rather than a hypothesis. Hypothesis is always a statistically testable statement. You should also read master papers on expatriate issues like cultural shocks, cultural adjustment, cross cultural intelligence and then frame your research question that will help you to write correct hypothesis for your study. Hope these papers are useful to you