Human resource management in US subsidiaries in Europe and Australia: centralisation or autonomy?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Gooderham, Paul; Nordhaug, Odd
• 署名单位: Open University - UK; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400313
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 151-166
• 关键词: international HRM; subsidiary management; neo-institutional theory; strategic context; centralised control; multinationals

摘要

We explore determinants of subsidiary autonomy in setting human resource management (HRM) practices within US-parented multinational enterprises (MNEs), in Europe and Australia. We examine both the effect of strategic context and the effect of the institutional location of the subsidiary. We find that US MNEs show greater centralisation of control over HRM where the subsidiary faces global markets, in coordinated market economies vs liberal market economies, and where union density is low.