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Compensation practices in Central and Eastern European EU member states—an analytical framework based on institutional perspectives, path dependencies, and efficiency considerations
Author(s) -
Festing Marion,
Sahakiants Ihar
Publication year - 2010
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.20325
Subject(s) - path dependency , compensation (psychology) , normative , dependency (uml) , path (computing) , business , member states , transformation (genetics) , accounting , resource (disambiguation) , political science , economic system , european union , economics , computer science , international trade , psychology , law , social psychology , gene , programming language , computer network , biochemistry , chemistry , software engineering
Research on compensation in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries is scarce, and a comprehensive analysis of factors influencing the adoption and transformation of compensation practices in CEE countries is lacking. This article provides a holistic analytical framework based on a literature review, secondary data on selected compensation practices in CEE countries, and theoretical insights from various perspectives. These include path dependency from the pre‐transformation era; current coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphic pressures; and efficiency‐based influences on compensation practices. Furthermore, implications are outlined both for future research on compensation management and for human resource management practice in CEE countries. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.