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Human Resource Management in the Multinational Enterprise: Styles, Modes, Institutions and Ideologies

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In their pioneering text Human Resource Management in the Multinational Company, Robert Desatnick and Margo Bennett (1977) advise that ‘If the right man is hired and properly trained to manage the foreign subsidiary, the corporate parent need not worry; but periodic audits are always advisable. His training should be concentrated at the operating company level, within US or Europe’ (p. 114). Even twenty years ago the wording of this prescription might have seemed a little archaic. Yet even if the authors had substituted Japan or Korea as the subjects of their own ethnically and sexually biased discourse they would, perhaps, have not been far from an accurate description of human resource management (HRM) practice in parent enterprises today.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Aston Business School, Aston University, UK

    Graham Hooley (Professor of Marketing and Head of the Marketing and Law Group) (Professor of Marketing and Head of the Marketing and Law Group)

  2. Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Ray Loveridge (Professor of Strategic Management and Director of Research, Visiting Fellow, Visiting Professor) (Professor of Strategic Management and Director of Research, Visiting Fellow, Visiting Professor)

  3. Science Policy Unit, University of Sussex, UK

    Ray Loveridge (Professor of Strategic Management and Director of Research, Visiting Fellow, Visiting Professor) (Professor of Strategic Management and Director of Research, Visiting Fellow, Visiting Professor)

  4. Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commercials, Paris, France

    Ray Loveridge (Professor of Strategic Management and Director of Research, Visiting Fellow, Visiting Professor) (Professor of Strategic Management and Director of Research, Visiting Fellow, Visiting Professor)

  5. Warwick Business School, UK

    David Wilson (Professor of Strategic Management) (Professor of Strategic Management)

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Casson, M., Loveridge, R., Singh, S. (1998). Human Resource Management in the Multinational Enterprise: Styles, Modes, Institutions and Ideologies. In: Hooley, G., Loveridge, R., Wilson, D. (eds) Internationalization. The Academy of International Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26556-5_8

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