Localized poaching and skills shortages of manufacturing employees among MNEs in China

Peter Sheldon and Yiqiong Li

Journal of World Business, 2013, vol. 48, issue 2, 186-195

Abstract: Using a mixed-method approach, we examine the experiences and responses among foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) of employee poaching and skills shortages in a prominent Chinese electronics manufacturing hub (Suzhou Industrial Park). This highlights strategic challenges MNEs face in Asia Pacific economies as more advanced subsidiaries outgrow their earlier low-cost, low-skill vocations. In examining poaching empirically, we also extend the field by introducing a local labour market perspective into the study of HRM in China. Third, we advance theorization of employee poaching beyond mainstream Western approaches to capture the interactions between internal and local labour markets that increasingly mark FIE manufacturing in fast developing economies.

Keywords: China; MNEs; Employee poaching; HRM; Local labour markets; Skill shortages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2012.07.003

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