 Implementing ‘Global HRM Standards’ across Multi-layered Subsidiary Contexts in an MNEChul Chung (),
Chris Brewster and
Ödül Bozkurt
John H Dunning Centre for International Business Discussion Papers from Henley Business School, University of Reading Abstract: This study examines the extent to which, and how, ‘best-practice’ global HRM policies are transferred by an emerging multinational enterprise (EMNE) across its subsidiaries. We focus on how socio-political dynamics unfold, identifying the role of national and subsidiary functionspecific institutional contexts, and managerial agency. We discuss substantial resistance to the importation of purported ‘global best practices’ by the subsidiaries and show that an EMNE’s ability to disseminate ‘global best practices’ across advanced as well as emerging economies is influenced by power dynamics between HQ and the subsidiaries, conditioned by the EMNE’s industry position, the home institutional context, national and subsidiary function-specific local institutional contexts, and local actors’ abilities to construct compelling localization logics that relate the distinct local contexts to significant business risk. Keywords: emerging multinational enterprise; global best practice; international HRM (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rdg:jhdxdp:jhd-dp2019-02 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in John H Dunning Centre for International Business Discussion Papers from Henley Business School, University of Reading Contact information at EDIRC. |
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