Towards a cross-cultural framework of strategic international human resource control: the case of Taiwanese high-tech subsidiaries in the USA

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Wang, C.Y.P. (2009), "Towards a cross-cultural framework of strategic international human resource control: the case of Taiwanese high-tech subsidiaries in the USA", Strategic Direction, Vol. 25 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/sd.2009.05625aad.006

Towards a cross-cultural framework of strategic international human resource control: the case of Taiwanese high-tech subsidiaries in the USA

Article Type: Abstracts From: Strategic Direction, Volume 25, Issue 1

Wang C.Y.P., , Jaw B.-S. and Huang C.-Y.The International Journal of Human Resource Management, July 2008, Vol. 19 No. 7, Start page: 1253, No. of pages: 25

Purpose – to determine the cross-cultural determinants of strategic international human resource (HR) control that impact on multinational companies subsidiaries. Design/methodology/approach – outlines how Taiwanese high-tech firms are increasingly entering into a series of private-label contracts with US importers and creating foreign subsidiaries to serve the US market. Highlights how an important challenge facing these firms is how to manage the cultural differences between Anglo-American and Chinese-based society. Adopts an integrative framework; applies the cybernetic system model to categorize human resource control issues; examines, among other things, the relationship between cross-cultural management and the execution of various international HR controls over the subsidiaries. Outlines a number of hypotheses; tests these on data collected from the chief executives of ten high-tech Taiwanese subsidiary companies in the USA. Findings – puts forward, among other things, how general management leadership and adaptive R&D were found to require higher capabilities of the subsidiary and to have higher home advantage, leading to higher levels of integration and adaptation. Research limitations/implications – briefly notes a number of study limitations. Originality/value – provides an integrative cross-cultural framework of strategic international HR control and its cross-cultural determinants.ISSN: 0958-5192Reference: 37AT056

Keywords: Human resource management, Human resource strategies, Multinationals, National cultures, Subsidiaries