Factors Influencing Human Resource Management Solutions at Subsidiaries of Multinational Companies in Central and Eastern Europe

• Published in: Journal of East-West business Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 93 - 119
• Main Authors: Poór, József, Karoliny, Zsuzsa, Dobrai, Katalin, Slavic, Agnes, Kerekes, Kinga, Farkas, Ferenc, Engle, Allen D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Binghamton Taylor & Francis Group 01.04.2014; Taylor & Francis LLC
• Subjects: CEE region; Croatia; Discriminant analysis; Eastern Europe; Estonia; HR solutions; Human resource management; Hungary; influencing factors; Literature; multinational company (MNC); Multinational corporations; Multinational enterprises; Personnel management; Poland; Romania; Serbia; Slovakia; Statistics; Studies; Subsidiaries; Subsidiary; Surveys; Eastern Europe; Central Europe
• ISSN: 1066-9868; 1528-6959
• DOI: 10.1080/10669868.2014.897288

There is a shortage of empirical human resource management (HRM) literature in respect to identifying new patterns of multinational company (MNC) involvement in the Central and Eastern Europe region and the impact of ongoing MNC operations on the patterns of the HRM behavior of these companies. To counter this lack of understanding within the field, our broadly based, international survey asked 279 subsidiaries located in Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia and was conducted in 2010. It aimed to describe the relationships within the companies involved-between the influencing factors and the HR solutions applied-in a statistically valid way.