Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193783 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] The International Journal of Human Resource Management [ISSN:] 0958-5192 [Volume:] 26 [Issue:] 21 [Publisher:] Routledge [Place:] London [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 2701-2717
Publisher: 
Routledge, London
Abstract: 
We compare how far companies based in Africa, India and the 'global North' operating in Mauritius adopt high-trust flexible working practices and how these are linked to different clusters of wider labour management practice. Using comprehensive firmlevel data collected in late 2011, we find that African/Indian company practices are closer to those of indigenous firms than to those of Northern companies. The different company groups operate in quite different ways but regional multi-national enterprises operate in a similar way to indigenous companies. We therefore conclude that Rugman and Verbeke's 'regionalization' theory also applies to the HR field. We further find that both a relatively strategic approach to HRM and measures to develop employer- employee interdependence are, respectively, linked directly and indirectly to flexible working incidence.
Subjects: 
employer–employee interdependence
flexible working
multinational enterprises
regionalisation
strategic HRM
JEL: 
M54
M52
M14
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Manuscript Version (Preprint)
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