Redefining the field of European human resource management: A battle between national mindsets and forces of business transition?
探讨欧洲组织管理中文化遗产与全球竞争力量的冲突，通过比较视角识别形成各国人力资源管理模式的要素，并构建动态框架理解当前管理参考框架。
This article examines the conflict between cultural heritage and the current forces of global competition in Europe. The nature of management in European organizations is in a state of transition, influenced by competing forces of economic, social, and political integration or disintegration. A review of European research is used to question the idealistic picture of the Single European Market as a unifying force that will simplify international human resource management in multinationals. Taking a comparative rather than international human resource management perspective, the paper identifies the factors that have created national patterns of HRM within Europe. A dynamic and comparative ‘force field framework’ of HRM is developed in order to understand the managerial frames of reference that are currently guiding the field. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.