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

研究者选择了制药行业中以新药开发为主要业务的大型制药企业和金融行业中的大型证券公司作为组织场域，对这些企业的人力资源系统进行了研究。研究人员对七家公司和五家公司进行了案例研究。结果发现，医药类上市公司的趋同程度大于证券类上市公司。这种趋同的方向是向西方式的人力资源制度靠拢。另一方面，证券案例研究公司的人力资源系统之间的差异程度更大。在证券案例研究公司中，有两种类型的公司，一种类型是向西方类型的人力资源系统转变的公司，另一种类型是人力资源系统静态的公司。

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.