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Micro-Political Conflicts and Institutional Issues During e-HRM Implementation in MNCs: A Vendor’s View

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This chapter explores the implementation of electronic HRM systems (e-HRM) in multinational corporations (MNCs) from a vendor consultant’s point of view. By presenting the issues surrounding implementation in MNCs and extending e-HRM definition to the MNC setting, this chapter combines the micro-political and institutional views and aims, firstly, to shed light on the micro-political issues and conflicts areas in e-HRM implementation and, secondly, to investigate how the institutional environment affects the e-HRM system implementation. The chapter contributes to our knowledge of e-HRM by exploring the previously largely unrecognized role of e-HRM vendor consultants and contributes to the theoretical discussion by extending and empirically testing a framework from the field of HRM to the field of e-HRM in MNCs.

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    Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Chris Brewster & Jaakko Mattila

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Heikkilä, JP., Brewster, C., Mattila, J. (2014). Micro-Political Conflicts and Institutional Issues During e-HRM Implementation in MNCs: A Vendor’s View. In: Machado, C., Davim, J. (eds) Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02618-3_1

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