SAGE LIBRARY IN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

INTERNATIONAL HUMANRESOURCE MANAGEMENT

VOLUME IInternational HRM: The MNE Perspective

Edited by

Pawan Budhwar, Randall Schulerand Paul Sparrow

i)SAGELos Angeles • London • New Delhi • Singapore • Washington DC

Contents

Volume IInternational HRM: The MNE Perspective

Appendix of Sources xiPreface xxiiiEditors' Introduction: Developments in IHRM - The MNE Perspective (I) xxix

Randall Schuler, Paul Sparrow and Pawan Budhwar

Models/Frameworks/Theories *

1. An Integrative Framework of Strategic International HumanResource Management 3Randall S. Schuler, Peter J. Dowling and Helen De Cieri

2. Toward an Integrative Model of Strategic International HumanResource Management 45Sully Taylor, Schon Beechler and Nancy Napier

3. Strategic Human Resource Management in MultinationalEnterprises: Theoretical and Empirical Developments 70Helen De Cieri and Peter J. Dowling

4. International Human Resource Management: A North AmericanPerspective, a Thematic Update and Suggestions for Future Research 92Randall S. Schuler and Ibraiz Tarique

Strategy, Structure and the External Environment

5. Patterns of Strategic Control within Multinational Corporations 125Yves Doz and C.K. Prahalad

6. Influences on Human Resource Management Practices inMultinational Corporations 147Philip M. Rosenzweig and Nitin Nohria

7. Strategic Human Resources: A New Source for CompetitiveAdvantage in the Global Arena 169Linda K. Stroh and Paula M. Caligiuri

8. Converting Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage 186Anil K. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan

9. Human Resource Issues and Activities in InternationalJoint Ventures 204Randall S. Schuler

10. HR Issues and Activities in Mergers and Acquisitions 264Randall Schuler and Susan Jackson

11. Strategic Alliances, Organizational Learning, and CompetitiveAdvantage: The HRM Agenda 288Vladimir Pucik

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Knowledge and Learning Creation and Transfer

12. Knowledge Creation and Learning in International HRM 305Ken Kamoche

13. Knowledge Flows within Multinational Corporations 319Anil K. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan

14. Knowledge Flows in MNCs: An Empirical Test and Extensionof Gupta and Govindarajan's Typology of Subsidiary Roles 353Anne-Wil Harzing and Niels Noorderhaveh

15. Managing Subsidiary Knowledge Creation: The Effect ofControl Mechanisms on Subsidiary Local Embeddedness 375Ulf Andersson, Ingmar Bjorkman and Mats Forsgren s

Volume IIInternational HRM: The MNE Perspective

Editors' Introduction: Developments in IHRM - The MNE Perspective (II) viiRandall Schuler, Paul Sparrow and Pawan Budhwar

Planning and Staffing

16. Expatriate Selection, Training and Career-Pathing: A Reviewand Critique 3Mark E. Mendenhall, Edward Dunbar and Gary R. Oddou

17. A Review and Agenda for Expatriate HRM 16Chris Brewster and Hugh Scullion

18. Who's in Charge? An Empirical Study of Executive Staffing ''Practices in Foreign Subsidiaries 28Anne-Wil Harzing

19. A Theory-Based Framework for Strategic Global HumanResource Staffing Policies and Practices 33Michael Harvey, Cheri Speier and Milorad M. Novecevic

20. Changing Patterns of Global Staffing in the MultinationalEnterprise: Challenges to the Conventional ExpatriateAssignment and Emerging Alternatives 73David G. Collings, Hugh Scullion and Michael J. Morley

21. A Model of Multinational Enterprise Subsidiary StaffingComposition 98Ibraiz Tarique, Randall Schuler and Yaping Gong

Training, Development and Leadership

22. Toward the Boundaryless Career: A Closer Look at theExpatriate Career Concept and the Perceived Implicationsof an International Assignment 119Gunter K. Stahl, Edwin L. Miller and Rosalie L. Tung

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23. Selection and Training of Personnel for Overseas Assignments 139Rosalie L. Tung

24. Managing Globally Competent People 154Nancy J. Adler and Susan Bartholomew

25. Cultivating a Global Mindset 170Anil K. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan

Compensation and Performance Management

26. Employee Performance Management across Borders: A Reviewof Relevant Academic Literature 189Lisbeth Clous and Dennis Briscoe

27. Compensation Strategies in a Global Context 214Luis R. Gomez-Mejia and Theresa Welbourne

28. International Compensation Practices: A Ten-CountryComparative Analysis 231Kevin B. Lowe, John Milliman, Helen De Cieri andPeter J. Dowling

29. Host Country National Reactions to Expatriate Pay Policies:A Model and Implications 258Soo Min Toh and Angelo S. DeNisi

IHR Department/Function

30. In Search of the Changing Role of the Corporate HumanResource Function in the International Firm 283Hugh Scullion and Ken Starkey

31. Towards a New Model of Globalizing,HRM 306Chris Brewster, Paul Sparrow and Hilary Harris

32. Toward a Comprehensive Model of International Adjustment:An Integration of Multiple Theoretical Perspectives 331J. Stewart Black, Mark Mendenhall and Gary Oddou

Volume inCross-Cultural Human Resource Management

Editors' Introduction: Developments in Cross-CulturalHuman Resource Management viiPaul Sparrow, Randall Schuler and Pawan Budhwar

Key Perspectives on the Cross-Cultural Management Field

33. The Cultural Relativity of Organizational Practices and Theories 3Geert Hofstede

34. Cross-Cultural Management Research: The Ostrich and the Trend 20Nancy J. Adler

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35. The Cross-Cultural Puzzle of International Human ResourceManagement 31Andre Laurent

36. Managing Cross-National and Intra-National Diversity 41Rosalie L. Tung

37. Internationalization and Varieties of Capitalism: The LimitedEffects of Cross-National Coordination of Economic Activitieson the Nature of Business Systems 56Richard Whitley

Dimensions and Models of Culture

38. Clustering Countries on Attitudinal Dimensions: A Reviewand Synthesis 91Simcha Ronen and Oded Shenkar

39. A Theory of Cultural Values and Some Implications for Work 122Shalom H. Schwartz

40. Understanding Cultures and Implicit Leadership Theoriesacross the Globe: An Introduction to Project GLOBE 144Robert House, Mansour Javidan, Paul Hanges andPeter Dorfman

41. Cultural Dimensions at the Individual Level of Analysis:The Cultural Orientations Framework 159Martha L. Maznevski, Joseph J. DiStefano, Carolina B. Gomez,Niels G. Noorderhaven and Pei-Chuan Wu

42. The Many Dimensions of Culture 181Harry C. Triandis

Cross-Cultural Training and Individual Capability

43. Cross-Cultural Training Effectiveness: A Review and aTheoretical Framework for Future Research 193J. Stewart Black and Mark Mendenhall

44. Global Mind-Sets and Cognitive Shift in a ComplexMultinational Corporation 222Thomas P Murtha, Stefanie Ann Lenway and Richard P. Bagozzi

45. Strategic HRM through the Cultural Looking Glass: Mappingthe Cognition of British and Indian Managers 245Pawan S. Budhwar and Paul R. Sparrow

46. Cultural Intelligence: Is Such a Capacity Credible? 284Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars

Methodological Insights

47. Hofstede's Model of National Culture Differences andTheir Consequences: A Triumph of Faith - A Failure of Analysis 293Brendan McSweeney

48. Structural Equivalence in Multilevel Research 319Fons J.R. van de Vijver and Ype H. Poortinga

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49. A Dynamic, Multi-Level Model of Culture: From the MicroLevel of the Individual to the Macro Level of a Global Culture 337Miriam Erez and Efrat Gati

50. Contextual Influences on Culture Research: Shifting Assumptionsfor New Workplace Realities 351Sonja A Sackmann and Margaret E. Phillips

Volume IVCross-national Comparative Human Resource

Management

Editors' Introduction: Cross-National ComparativeHuman Resource Management viiPawan Budhwar, Randall Schuler and Paul Sparrow

Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives in Comparative HRM

51. Comparative Human Resource Management (HRM): A SystemsPerspective 3James P. Begin

52. Building the Theory of Comparative HRM 28Peter Boxall

53. Towards a 'European' Model of Human Resource Management 42Chris Brewster

54. Rethinking Comparative and Cross-National Human ResourceManagement Research 63Pawan S. Budhwar and Yaw Debrah

55. Reconceptualizing Comparative Industrial Relations: Lessonsfrom International Research 84Richard Locke, Thomas Kochan and Michael Piore

Frameworks for Cross-National Comparative HRM Investigations

56. Comparative Research in Human Resource Management:A Review and an Example 109Chris Brewster, Olga Tregaskis, Ariane Hegewisch and Lesley Mayne

57. An Integrative Framework for Understanding Cross-NationalHuman Resource Management Practices 129Pawan S. Budhwar and Paul R. Sparrow

58. Institutional and Rational Determinants of OrganizationalPractices: Human Resource Management in European Firms 157Paul N. Gooderham, Odd Nordhaug and Kristen Ringdal

59. Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes inEmployment Systems 183Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire

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60. A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of PersonnelAdministration 226V.V. Murray, Harish C. Jain and Roy J. Adams

61. Redefining the Field of European Human Resource Management:A Battle between National Mindsets and Forces ofBusiness Transition 240Paul R. Sparrow and Jean-Marie Hiltrop

Empirical Investigations in Cross-National Comparative HRM

62. Human Resource Management in Europe: Evidence fromTen Countries 267Chris Brewster and Henrik Holt Larsen

63. National Factors Determining Indian and British HRM Practices:An Empirical Study 289Pawan S. Budhwar and Paul R. Sparrow

64. Competition and Change: Mapping the Indian HRM Recipeagainst World-Wide Patterns 305Paul R. Sparrow and Pawan S. Budhwar

65. Convergence or Divergence: Human Resource Practices andPolicies for Competitive Advantage Worldwide 324Paul Sparrow, Randall S. Schuler and Susan E. Jackson

66. Converging or Diverging? A Comparative Analysis of Trendsin Contingent Employment Practice in Europe over a Decade 351Olga Tregaskis and Chris Brewster