Building from below: subsidiary management moderation of employment practices in MNCs in China

摘要: The international human resource management literature has a long tradition of examining the impact institutional differences on employment practices adopted by multinational corporations (MNCs). question how actors make sense differences, however, received less research attention. This study examines enactment as are translated, contextualized and deployed managers at subsidiaries MNCs. Based intensive case studies two Japanese–Chinese joint-venture manufacturing plants, first shows that distinctive were to manage boundaries between employee groups. These distinctions then explained difference home country (Japan) host (China) well way represented in process designing, developing executing practices. therefore argues t...