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Similarly different: a comparison of HRM practices in MNE subsidiaries and local firms in Turkey

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posted on 2017-09-04, 13:57 authored by Kamel Mellahi, Mehmet Demirbag, David G. Collings, Ekrem Tatoglu, Mathew Hughes
This study provides some important insights on identifying the underlying characteristics of HRM practices that are likely to be adapted to the local cultural and institutional milieu by subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Further insights are provided on the distinctive characteristics of HRM practices pursued by local firms that are more likely to converge to the practices pursued by subsidiaries of MNEs. Our findings support the idea that HRM practices that are easy to diffuse, control and manage, and reflect a core organizational value will not be adapted to the local context. Our results provide evidence of the emergence of an established set of global best practices in MNEs. We also identify some instances where MNEs are more likely to adapt their HRM practices to the local context. We posit that this is more likely with regard to HRM practices that are difficult to diffuse, control and manage, and require sensitivity to local institutional pressures.

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School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volume

24

Issue

12

Pages

2339 - 2368

Citation

MELLAHI, K. ... et al., 2013. Similarly different: a comparison of HRM practices in MNE subsidiaries and local firms in Turkey. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 24 (12), pp.2339-2368.

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© Taylor and Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Human Resource Management on 20/05/2013, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2013.78143.

ISSN

0958-5192

eISSN

1466-4399

Language

  • en

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