Human resource management in foreign-owned workplaces: evidence from Australia
基于1995年澳大利亚工作场所工业关系调查，研究发现外资企业比本土企业更广泛地投资人力资源职能和实践，尤其是美英企业，表明澳大利亚的监管环境和保护市场并未阻碍跨国公司在人力资源管理上的创新。
Multinational companies have assumed a position of considerable prominence in the Australian economy. Drawing on the 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, this paper examines the character of human resource management in multinational companies operating in Australia. The findings suggest that investments in the human resource function and the utilization of human resource practices were generally more widespread in foreign-owned than Australian establishments. This was especially the case for workplaces belonging to American and British-owned firms. It is concluded that the more strongly regulated industrial relations environment as well as the legacy of protected domestic markets have not made multinational companies reluctant innovators in human resource management in the Australian context.