2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A research on the global corporations' HRM/HRD practices and theeffects to competitiveness of their local subsidiaries
Project/Area Number |
21530407
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Business administration
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Research Institution | Sophia University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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Keywords | MNCs / HRM / HRD / 制度 / 組織フィールド / 日系企業 / シンガポール / オーストラリア |
Research Abstract |
This research project systematized following three points in explaining thecompetitiveness of local subsidiaries of the global corporations, based on the series of field survey anddata analysis. Firstly, the subsidiaries need to re-construct their HRM/HRD system in order to maketheir activities effective to their embedded environment, even referring to the parent company’sresources or know-how. Second, the environment where subsidiaries embedded are defined withvarious factors such as the macro institutions of the local governments or the local business partners. Sothe organizational institutions which helps organizations to be competitive, will be differentlyconstructed reflecting the influence from such partners in the environments. Third, both type ofmanagers, expats or locally hired, play their critical role in drawing out resources from the surroundingenvironment or partners, and compose them into their effective institutions or practices towardsaccomplishing their business goals.
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Research Products
(15 results)
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[Remarks] Hosogaya, N. A study on the Japanesemultinational corporation: Fromefficiency-oriented to pursuit of integration,coordination, and local responsiveness, Publiclecture at the School of Social and PoliticalSciences, the University of Melbourne on 29thJuly 2010
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[Remarks] Hosogaya, N. The orientation of Japanesemultinational corporations: knowledge transferand embeddedness, Public lecture orgnised byThe Centre for Population & Urban Research andThe Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University,on 18th August 2010
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