Comparison of HR systems between firms in terms of convergence and divergence, and change and stability

研究人员选取以制药行业新药开发为主要业务领域的大型制药企业和金融行业的大型证券公司作为组织领域，对这些企业的人力资源系统进行了研究。研究人员对7家公司和5家公司的每个组织领域进行了案例研究。研究发现，医药企业的趋同程度大于证券企业。其趋同的方向是向西方式人力资源制度发展。另一方面，在安全案例研究公司中，人力资源系统之间的分歧程度更大。在证券案例研究公司中有两种类型的公司；一种是向西方式人力资源系统转变的企业，另一种是人力资源系统是静态的企业。

The researchers selected large pharmaceutical firms whose main business area is development of new drugs in pharmaceutical industry and large security firms in financial industry as organizational fields, and researched HR systems in these firms. The researchers conducted case studies for seven firms and five firms for each organizational field. As a result, the research found that the extent of convergence in the pharmaceutical case study firms is larger than that in the security firms. The direction of the convergence is towards the western-type of HR system. On the other hands, the extent of divergence among HR systems in the security case study firms is larger. There are both types of firms among the security case study firms ; one type is the firms that changed towards the western-type of HR system and the other type is the firms whose HR systems are static.