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Mass production is alive and well: the future of work and organization in east Asia.
- Source :
- International Journal of Human Resource Management; Mar2004, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p397-409, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- This paper reviews the extent to which multinational corporations from developed economies and newly industrialized economies in east Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong) are hollowing out their mass production of standardized goods and transferring such production to the emergent economies of China and Malaysia. Based on data from sixty-one mini-case studies in two industries, garments and electronics, it argues that the HRM practices and policies being utilized in those overseas affiliates are functions of a number of factors, including corporate business strategies, corporate control mechanisms and host-country institutional HRM capacity. The research finds remarkable similarities in HRM policies and practices between the two countries, the two industries and between different corporate ownerships. The use of Taylorist forms of work organization and low-trust/low-investment HRM policies are part of corporate strategies of hollowing out, of poor host-country HRM capability and of tight control over affiliates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INTERNATIONAL business enterprises
PERSONNEL management
INDUSTRIAL relations
HUMAN resource accounting
HUMAN resources departments
INDUSTRIAL management
BUSINESS planning
EMERGING markets
FOREIGN investments
MASS production
TRANSITION economies
ELECTRONIC industries
CLOTHING industry
MANUFACTURING processes
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09585192
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Human Resource Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12252672
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0958519032000158572