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Multinational HRM in privatized Jordanian enterprises: An exploration of the influence of political contingencies
Author(s) -
AlHusan Faten Baddar,
James Philip
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
thunderbird international business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1520-6874
pISSN - 1096-4762
DOI - 10.1002/tie.20164
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , subsidiary , negotiation , business , politics , human resource management , government (linguistics) , order (exchange) , human resources , control (management) , international business , resource (disambiguation) , industrial organization , economics , management , political science , finance , computer network , linguistics , philosophy , law , computer science
Within the international human resource management literature, it is recognized that a range of “host‐country effects” can influence how multinational corporations approach the management of human resources within overseas subsidiaries. This article seeks to further knowledge of these effects by using the findings obtained from two case studies conducted in companies that had come under the control of French multinationals through the Jordanian government's privatization program to explore how subsequent processes of human resource reform were shaped by governmental policies and wider political considerations and the dynamics underlying these shaping processes. In particular, it explores the tensions that arose between government policies and corporate business objectives, the negotiating strategies that the companies adopted in order to resolve them, and the factors that influenced the usage and outcome of these strategies. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.