Looking East: diffusing high performance work practices in the southern Afro-Asian context
Looking East: diffusing high performance work practices in the southern Afro-Asian context
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向东看：在南部亚非地区传播高绩效工作实践
DOI：
10.1080/09585190210131276
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
I. Chew
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作者：
F. Horwitz;Ken Kamoche;I. Chew
大多数跨文化的国际人力资源管理（IHRM）文献包含东亚和西方国家的有益的比较分析和日本的最佳运营实践的经验教训。将这一辩论扩展到非洲背景的文献以及东亚和非洲国家之间比较IHRM工作的文献都很少。本文填补了一个上下文的差距，提供了一个比较分析的扩散和采用高绩效的工作实践，从东亚南部非洲公司。鉴于全球经济趋同的强大力量，对“背景”的持续相关性进行了批判性评估。然而，关于趋同/趋异框架的大部分辩论似乎忽视了混合做法的发展和实施过程中的动态和交叉以及反向扩散。本文强调了考虑某些变量的地方独特性和多样性的特点，形成特定的人力资源实践的交叉融合的概念的重要性。
Most cross-cultural international human resource management (IHRM) literature contains instructive comparative analyses of East Asian and Western countries and lessons from Japanese best operating practice. There is a paucity of literature extending this debate to the African context and of comparative IHRM work between East Asia and African countries. This article fills a contextual gap in offering a comparative analysis of diffusion and adoption of high performance work practices from East Asia in southern African firms. The continued relevance of 'context' is critically evaluated, given powerful forces for convergence in the global economy. However, much of the debate on the convergence/divergence framework appears to neglect process dynamics and cross-vergence in the development and implementation of hybrid practices as well as reverse diffusion. This article highlights the importance of considering certain variables of local distinctiveness and diversity as features of the notion of cross-vergence which shape particular human resource practices.