- Title
- Swimming against the tide: outward staffing flows from multinational subsidiaries
- Creator
- Collings, David G.; McDonnell, Anthony; Gunnigle, Patrick; Lavelle, Jonathan
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10th International Human Resource Management Conference (IHRM 2009). Celebrate the Tapestry Diversity in the Modern Global Organization: Proceedings of the 10th International Human Resource Management Conference (Santa Fe, NM 21-24 June, 2009)
- Relation
- http://business.nmsu.edu/~mgt/ihrmc/index.html
- Publisher
- NMSU College of Business
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Studies of flows of parent country nationals of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to subsidiary operations has a relatively long tradition. However the study of flows of subsidiary employees to other subsidiaries, as third country nationals, and to the corporate headquarters, as inpatriates, has, empirically, much less pedigree. Drawing on a large scale empirical study of MNEs in Ireland, this paper provides a benchmark of outward staffing flows from the Irish subsidiaries of foreign owned MNEs to both the corporate headquarters and other worldwide operations. Building insights from the resource based view, we develop and test a theoretical model to explain outward staffing flows. The results show that almost half of all MNEs utilise some form of outward staffing flows from the Irish operations. Although the impact of specific variables in explaining interorganization variation differs between the utilisation of inpatriate and third country national assignments, overall we find that a number of headquarter, subsidiary, structural and human resources systems factors emerge as strong predictors of outward staffing flows.
- Subject
- multinational enterprises; outward staffing flows; foreign direct investments; Ireland
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920383
- Identifier
- uon:9140
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781715842124
- Language
- eng
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