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TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the configuration of international HRM strategies for global integration and local responsiveness in MNEs
AU - Chung, Chul
AU - Sparrow, Paul
PY - 2024/5/1
Y1 - 2024/5/1
N2 - This study examines the configuration of international HRM strategies to understand how an MNE pursues global integration and local responsiveness simultaneously in HRM. Drawing upon cases of eight South Korean and Japanese MNEs, we identify different patterns of configuration of five international HRM strategies that shape distinct sets of activities. We show that the firms pursue global integration and local responsiveness simultaneously, but in distinct ways, by configuring international HRM strategies for both integration and responsiveness rather than solely just relying on either one. Our findings offer insight into how MNEs actually manage the duality of global integration and local responsiveness at the strategy level beyond the hybridization of global standardization and localization of practices.
AB - This study examines the configuration of international HRM strategies to understand how an MNE pursues global integration and local responsiveness simultaneously in HRM. Drawing upon cases of eight South Korean and Japanese MNEs, we identify different patterns of configuration of five international HRM strategies that shape distinct sets of activities. We show that the firms pursue global integration and local responsiveness simultaneously, but in distinct ways, by configuring international HRM strategies for both integration and responsiveness rather than solely just relying on either one. Our findings offer insight into how MNEs actually manage the duality of global integration and local responsiveness at the strategy level beyond the hybridization of global standardization and localization of practices.
KW - Configuration
KW - global integration
KW - human resource management
KW - local responsiveness
KW - multinational enterprise
U2 - 10.1080/09585192.2024.2320768
DO - 10.1080/09585192.2024.2320768
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 1943
EP - 1969
JO - The International Journal of Human Resource Management
JF - The International Journal of Human Resource Management
SN - 0958-5192
IS - 11
ER -