Comparative Human Resource Management: Contextual Insights from an International Research Collaboration

Context is recognized as a critical factor in accounting for HRM differences and similarities, and international academic research networks are a key approach to overcoming this challenge. This volume documents the development of the Cranet Network on International Human Resource Management and presents contributions that highlight the limits of convergence, the role of institutional actors, markets, and work regulation, and the contextual specificities and dynamics in transition economies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Context is increasingly recognized as a critical explanatory variable in accounting for commonalities and differences in human resource management. Giving expression to it in research models holds the prospect of enhancing theory development, deepening our appreciation of embedded practices in diverse territories, and opening up new lines of enquiry. However, contextualization presents a significant research challenge, and increasingly, international academic research networks that bring together scholars from different countries in the co-production of knowledge represent a key approach to rising to this challenge.

This volume documents aspects of the development of one such network, namely the Cranet Network on International Human Resource Management, and presents a series of recent contributions from the network. The chapters highlight, inter alia, the limits to convergence in human resource management as a result of contextual determinism, the role of institutional actors, markets, and work regulation in accounting for variations in practices, the contextual specificities and dynamics at play in transition economies, along with key methodological challenges that arise when seeking to build cumulative comparative knowledge via network collaborations of this nature.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of International Studies of Management & Organization.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367767709