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Mapping the impact of home‐ and host‐country institutions on human resource management in emerging market multinational companies: A conceptual framework
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posted on 2019-01-08, 11:54 authored by Tony EdwardsTony Edwards, Gerhard SchnyderGerhard Schnyder, Johann FortwengelWhile there is a growing literature concerned with multinational companies from emerging markets (EMNCs), it does not contain a robust conception of how institutions shape human resource (HR) practices in such firms. We contribute to filling this gap through developing a framework of how institutions create a range of constraints and opportunities for EMNCs. Specifically, our framework contains three key elements of how MNCs from emerging markets interact with institutions: EMNCs develop approaches that to some extent reflect the perceived strengths and weaknesses of the institutions in the home country (institutional conditioning); the strategies of actors in EMNCs can overcome the weaknesses of the home country by drawing on institutions in other countries (institutional arbitrage); and the actions of EMNCs can reinforce, or create pressures for change in, the institutional context in the countries in which they operate (institutional change / consolidation). By mapping this set of strategies of EMNCs, we contribute to a fuller understanding of the relationship between institutions and HR practices, and we outline how the rise of EMNCs reshapes the global landscape by adding new kinds of firm behavior to capitalist diversity.
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- Loughborough University London
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Thunderbird International Business ReviewVolume
61Issue
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531-544Citation
EDWARDS, T., SCHNYDER, G. and FORTWENGEL, J., 2019. Mapping the impact of home‐ and host‐country institutions on human resource management in emerging market multinational companies: A conceptual framework. Thunderbird International Business Review, 61 (3), pp.531-544.Publisher
© WileyVersion
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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/Acceptance date
2018-12-15Publication date
2019-02-20ISSN
1096-4762eISSN
1520-6874Publisher version
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