The UK decision to exit the EU in 2016 has led to economic uncertainty. Foreign corporations with UK subsidiaries have sought to mediate these uncertainties while a final agreement is negotiated. Critical to this is the relationship between headquarter-subsidiary relations (HQs) and these subsidiaries. Discourse analysis has increasingly been used to examine corporate relations, with the corporation viewed as socially constructed through discourses and perpetual deliberations. Deploying a discourse approach, and recognising the importance of topological spatial relations, this article examines the relationship between HQs and UK-based subsidiaries during the Brexit negotiation period. In conclusion, HQs have generally devolved responsibility to subsidiaries for responding to Brexit, involving ‘consensual’ relations with subsidiaries and less intrusive ‘stretched’ topological power relations.

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英国脱欧与公司的话语建设

英国于2016年退出欧盟的决定导致了经济不确定性。拥有英国子公司的外国公司试图在谈判最终协议时调解这些不确定性。对此至关重要的是总部－子公司关系（HQ）与这些子公司之间的关系。话语分析已越来越多地用于检查公司关系，而公司被视为通过话语和永久审议而在社会上建立起来的。部署话语方法并认识到拓扑空间关系的重要性，本文研究了英国退欧谈判期间总部与英国子公司之间的关系。总而言之，总部通常将责任下放给子公司以应对英国脱欧，