Diffusion of human resource management systems in UK headquartered multinational enterprises: integrating institutional and strategic choice explanations Online publication date: Tue, 06-Nov-2007
by Mark Fenton-O'Creevy, Stephen Wood
European J. of International Management (EJIM), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2007
Abstract: This study examines the factors associated with the cross-national diffusion of HRM systems within Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) through the lens of the strategic choice and neo-institutional perspectives. Both perspectives are successful in predicting diffusion. The institutional contexts of business units within multinationals and key strategic context variables are shown, in a study of 20 UK multinationals in Europe, to have significant and interacting relationships with the degree of similarity between affiliate HRM systems and those of their parent counterparts.
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