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Measuring competing explanations of human resource management practices through the Cranet survey: Cultural versus institutional explanations
Brookes, Michael Croucher, Richard Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark Gooderham, Paul
Brookes, Michael
Croucher, Richard
Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark
Gooderham, Paul
Abstract
This paper assesses the relative and joint impact of cultural and institutional factors on firms' use of “calculative” human resource management practices to determine their separate analytic power. To what extent do institutions and culture structure managerial choice? Previous research has been constrained by not having measures for both cultural and institutional distance. Employing data from 14 European countries taken from the Cranet survey, our findings indicate that institutional, and more specifically, labour relations factors, have more explanatory power than cultural factors.
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HRM practices, Cultural explanations, Institutional explanations
Date
2011
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Human Resource Management Review
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21
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1
Page Range
68-79
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