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chapter 9 ...................................................................................................................... ...

The starting point for most HRM approaches in the 1980 s was the external environment: models typically had an ‘outside-in’ char ...

9.2 Different Institutional Settings ........................................................................................... ...

9.3 HRM and Strategic Contingency Approaches ................................................................................... ...

strategic behavior (defenders, prospectors, and analyzers). Schuler and Jackson ( 1987 ) connected Porter’s ( 1985 ) competitive ...

and socio-political topics, which incorporate a range of factors that inXuence strategic decision-making in HRM. Of course, thes ...

various forms of rationality. He associates the concept of strategy with the following general categories of social action: .Ins ...

9.5 HRM and New Institutionalism ............................................................................................... ...

isomorphism as a constraining process that forces one unit in a population (or organizationalWeld) to resemble other units that ...

1 Institutional Theory and Change Institutional theory has been criticized for only being able to explain the persist- enc ...

appropriate domain in which the organization should operate, beliefs and values about the principles of organizing, and deWned p ...

practice erodes or discontinues. In identifying the various factors that contribute to this process, and thus to change, she dis ...

diVerentiate from competitors in an eVort to achieve or maintain sustained competitive advantage. On the other hand, there are i ...

paralleled or balanced by a suYcient degree of trust, legitimacy, and fairness, the enforced changes will be likely in the long ...

a polite, digniWed, and respectful way by authorities (Colquitt et al. 2001 : 427 ). Informational justice points to the role of ...

9.7 Conclusions ................................................................................................................ ...

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Greenberg,J.( 1990 ). ‘Organizational Justice: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.’Journal of Management, 16 :399 432. Greenwood, R. ...

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