On Race and Recruiting Practices in Foreign Firms in India: The Case of German Multinationals before 1947

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    Abstract

    This paper deals with Human Resource Management (HRM) in German
    multinationals in India before 1947. It identifies the most important HR challenges and how they changed over time, responding to recent calls for a stronger historical contextualization of HRM research. Drawing on theoretical concepts of institutionalism, the paper shows that HRM was
    heavily influenced by different stakeholders in the host country, India, but also by home country politics and the local perception of multinationals’ origin country. Not institutional distance or foreignness but concrete, and sometimes misleading, ideas about Germany shaped HR practices as well as their evaluation by local stakeholders.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Publikationsdato2014
    Antal sider23
    StatusUdgivet - 2014
    BegivenhedInformal and Everyday Markets: Histories of Business and Entrepeneurship in India since the 19th century - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Tyskland
    Varighed: 18 jun. 201420 jun. 2014
    https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/490540.html

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    KonferenceInformal and Everyday Markets
    LokationGeorg-August-Universität Göttingen
    Land/OmrådeTyskland
    ByGöttingen
    Periode18/06/201420/06/2014
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    Emneord

    • German business
    • Human resource management
    • India
    • Indian nationalism
    • Liability of foreignness
    • Multinational enterprises
    • Political risk

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