Principal speaker
Associate Professor Elaine Farndale - Penn State University
Abstract: This study explores the globalisation thesis, investigating convergence in a significant field of international business – human resource management (HRM) – from three perspectives: macro-economic, multinational enterprises and market economy.
Based in the comparative capitalisms literature, patterns of HRM practice use are compared over time, between multinational and domestic firms, and between liberal and coordinated market economies.
Data collected at three intervals over a ten year period from nine countries shows considerably more non-convergence than convergence, from all three perspectives, although a quarter of HRM practices do show some trends of convergence.
The findings highlight the embeddedness of HRM within organisational contexts and to some extent challenge popular assumptions that globalisation is leading to a universal model of HRM practice.
Speaker: Elaine Farndale is Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Pennsylvania State University and is also affiliated to the Department of Human Resource Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Elaine’s research encompasses the field of international human resource management (including cross-national comparative HRM and HRM in multinational corporation), for which she has received research funding from, among others, the Society for Human Resource Management.
She has published widely from her international collaborations in both the practitioner and academic press, such as Sloan Management Review, Journal of World Business, Human Resource management, Human Resource Management Journal and International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Elaine is currently Associate Editor for the journals Human Resource Management and International Journal of Human Resource management, and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for other HRM and international business journals.
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