TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring competing explanations of human resource management practices through the Cranet survey
T2 - Cultural versus institutional explanations
AU - Brookes, Michael
AU - Croucher, Richard
AU - Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark
AU - Gooderham, Paul
PY - 2011/3/1
Y1 - 2011/3/1
N2 - This paper assesses the relative and joint impact of cultural and institutional factors on firms' use of "calculative" human resource management practices to determine their separate analytic power. To what extent do institutions and culture structure managerial choice? Previous research has been constrained by not having measures for both cultural and institutional distance. Employing data from 14 European countries taken from the Cranet survey, our findings indicate that institutional, and more specifically, labour relations factors, have more explanatory power than cultural factors.
AB - This paper assesses the relative and joint impact of cultural and institutional factors on firms' use of "calculative" human resource management practices to determine their separate analytic power. To what extent do institutions and culture structure managerial choice? Previous research has been constrained by not having measures for both cultural and institutional distance. Employing data from 14 European countries taken from the Cranet survey, our findings indicate that institutional, and more specifically, labour relations factors, have more explanatory power than cultural factors.
KW - Cultural explanations
KW - HRM practices
KW - Institutional explanations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78149500478&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2010.09.012
DO - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2010.09.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78149500478
SN - 1053-4822
VL - 21
SP - 68
EP - 79
JO - Human Resource Management Review
JF - Human Resource Management Review
IS - 1
ER -