I suspect what your describing is less the cause but a symptom of the real case. In my experience(i have worked from branch offices most my career) the differe

I suspect what your describing is less the cause but a symptom of the real case. In my experience(i have worked from branch offices most my career) the differentiating factor is literacy, ie how comfortable/confident are the organization with recorded text vs private spoken word and the more the organization writes the more effective the remote staff will be. And one of the side effect of a written culture is that a lot of the informal conventions/conversations become formal structure so the same level of top down planning can look very differently based on weather the culture for disseminating it is literate or oral.