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This paper explores how the tension between global integration and local responsiveness affects the dimensions and determinants of international human resource (IHR) strategy. To accomplish this, Jarillo and Martinez's [1990] business strategy framework for parents and their subsidiaries was recast in an IHR strategy setting. Then, the relationships between the two dimensions of IHR strategy that emerged, global integration and local responsiveness, and a set of interorganizational interdependency variables were explored. Several new and informative associations between the interorganizational interdependency variables (subsidiaries' dependence on parent's resources, local resources, and hot institutions) and IHR strategy were observed in a sample of one hundred subsidiaries of Japanese, U.S. and European MNCs operating in Taiwan.
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*John M. Hannon is an assistant professor of management in the Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University and has been a visiting scholar at Keio University in Japan. His research interests include International/Strategic HRM.
**Ing-Chung Huang is a professor and chairman in the Institute of Human Resource Management, Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree from Sung Kyun Kwan University in Korea. His research interests include International/Strategic HRM.
***Bih-Shiaw Jaw is an associate professor in the Institute of Human Resource Management, Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan. He had been a visiting scholar at Purdue University in 1993–1994. His research interests include International HRM.
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Hannon, J., Huang, Ic. & Jaw, BS. International Human Resource Strategy and Its Determinants: The Case of Subsidiaries in Taiwan. J Int Bus Stud 26, 531–554 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490185
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490185