Multinationals’ HRM policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter?
This study draws on the lens of institutional theory to explore how the coercive (regulatory), cognitive (culture) and normative institutional settings of a less developed host-country (LDC) impact MNE subsidiaries’ HRM practice configurations. The study found that the regulatory or coercive institu...
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| author | Ayentimi, Desmond Tutu |
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| description | This study draws on the lens of institutional theory to explore how the coercive (regulatory), cognitive (culture) and normative institutional settings of a less developed host-country (LDC) impact MNE subsidiaries’ HRM practice configurations. The study found that the regulatory or coercive institutional profile of the host-country is both supportive and receptive to HRM practice diffusion, whilst the cognitive and normative institutional profiles are the sources of constraints to HRM practice diffusion in LDCs. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-570882017-10-04T03:18:17Z Multinationals’ HRM policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter? Ayentimi, Desmond Tutu This study draws on the lens of institutional theory to explore how the coercive (regulatory), cognitive (culture) and normative institutional settings of a less developed host-country (LDC) impact MNE subsidiaries’ HRM practice configurations. The study found that the regulatory or coercive institutional profile of the host-country is both supportive and receptive to HRM practice diffusion, whilst the cognitive and normative institutional profiles are the sources of constraints to HRM practice diffusion in LDCs. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57088 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Ayentimi, Desmond Tutu Multinationals’ HRM policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter? |
| title | Multinationals’ HRM policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter? |
| title_full | Multinationals’ HRM policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter? |
| title_fullStr | Multinationals’ HRM policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multinationals’ HRM policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter? |
| title_short | Multinationals’ HRM policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter? |
| title_sort | multinationals’ hrm policies and practices: do national institutions in less developed countries really matter? |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57088 |