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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Chen, I Chun Lisaa; * | Easterby-Smith, Markb
Affiliations: [a] Department of Business Administration, Yuanpei University, HsinChu, Taiwan 30015, Republic of China | [b] Department of Management Learning, Lancaster University, Management School, Lancaster LA1 4YX, UK
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: I C.L. Chen, Department of Business Administration, Yuanpei University, HsinChu, Taiwan 30015, Republic of China. Tel. +8863581183 (8606); E-mail: iclchen@mail.ypu.edu.tw.
Abstract: Guanxi has been well studied in Chinese management as a vital factor associated with business strategy and HRM in Chinese communities. However, Guanxi may not be crucial anymore, because Chinese MNCs are rapidly becoming global players since they have started to merge with and acquire Western MNCs, but not through the guanxi related to international strategy. Recently, “a Chinese company bought IBM Personal Computers lock, stock and barrel. Chinese corporations have bought Thomson and RCA televisions, Dirt Devil etc.” (James Dyson, 2005). This paper investigates Taiwanese MNCs pursuing an internationalisation strategy, and discusses implications for the way third world MNCs manages their international employees. Interview data from twenty four Taiwanese-owned companies are used to identify how the Chinese cultural value of guanxi, underpins their management style in the British context. The paper finds that there are sectoral differences between the IT and financial service industries in terms of the way guanxi affects recruitment and company location decisions. It is concluded that national culture is still an important factor to influence the international strategy and HRM practice in MNCs of third world origin.
Keywords: Taiwanese/Chinese management, Guanxi, internationalisation strategy and international human resource management
DOI: 10.3233/HSM-2008-0668
Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 131-142, 2008
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