Conceptual and methodological issues in international and comparative HRM: Transferring lessons from comparative public policy
借鉴比较公共政策学科的概念与方法论遗产,探讨如何解决国际人力资源管理中的标准化与趋同分歧,以及比较人力资源管理中的实践与差异困境,并提出未来研究建议。
In 2016, a special edition of Human Resource Management Review established a theoretical and empirical development framework to address the fundamental issue of convergence/divergence. An intriguing question raised by the review was whether one could cross the comparative human resource management (CHRM) stream with its international human resource management (IHRM) counterpart to theoretically and empirically benefit both. This paper addresses a similar topic, albeit looking outwards to the archetypal context-driven comparative public policy (CPP) discipline rather than inwards to two adjacent international and comparative streams. Centering on the standardization-convergence divide in IHRM and the practice-divergence conundrum in CHRM, the paper demonstrates how CPP's rich conceptual and methodological heritage can help overcome tensions in both streams while informing several meta-analytic review and future research suggestions.