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Type	Working Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Human resource management and radical innovation : a fuzzy-set QCA of US multinationals in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK
Organization Unit	Empirical Research in Business, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (Uschi Backes-Gellner)
Authors	Uschi Backes-Gellner Marlies Kluike Kerstin Pull Martin Schneider Silvia Teuber
Language	English
Institution	University of Zurich
Series Name	UZH Business Working Paper Series
Number	361
ISSN	2296-0422
Number of Pages	26
Date	2015
Abstract Text	This paper explores, based on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, configurations of key human resource management practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Contrary to the implications of the varieties-of-capitalism literature, combining numerical flexibility and employing a high share of academics does not necessarily achieve radical innovation. Various paths to radical innovation exist, and most of them involve functional flexibility. Overall, the findings emphasize the strategic discretion MNEs have, and accentuate that functional flexibility is a key HR practice to achieve radical innovation across differing varieties of capitalism countries.
Related URLs	https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/125421/
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