International and comparative HRM

Our research addresses a wide range of issues in international Human Resource Management (HRM), comparative HRM, and cross-cultural management. Our research has contributed to understanding the impact of international business and globalisation on HRM in emerging economies such as China, including changes in their human resource and labour management policies and practices and implications for both theory-development and managerial practices. Further, our scholarship covers the HRM policies and practices of multinational enterprises in their host country subsidiaries, such as Chinese MNEs operating in Australia.

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Featured publications

• Bader, A., Froese, F., Cooke, F. L. and Schuster, T. (2022), Gender diversity management in foreign subsidiaries: A comparative study in Germany and Japan, Journal of International Management, 28:3, 100921.
• Lee, J. Y., Yahiaoui, D., Lee, K. P. and Cooke, F. L. (2022), Global talent management and multinational subsidiaries’ resilience in the Covid-19 crisis: Moderating roles of regional headquarters’ support and headquarters–subsidiary friction, Human Resource Management, 61:3, 355-372.
• Lindsay, S., Sheehan, C., & De Cieri, H. (2020). The influence of workgroup identification on turnover intention and knowledge sharing: the perspective of employees in subsidiaries. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(3), 432-455.
• Sanders K, and De Cieri H. (2021). Similarities and differences in international and comparative human resource management: A review of 60 years of research. Human Resource Management, 61(1), 55-88.
• Zhang, M.M., Lu, Y., Zhu, C.J., and Zhou, H. (2020). Navigating the web of informal institutions when investing in a strange land: Chinese multinational enterprises in Australia. American Business Review, 23(2), 316-334.
• Zhang, M.M., Zhu, C. J., De Cieri, H., Dowling, P. J., & Chen, Z.X. (2019). A Corporate Entrepreneurship Perspective of Pre-entry Strategies for Internationalisation: Case Study of a Chinese Business Conglomerate. Thunderbird International Business Review, 61(2), 243-254.
• Zhao, S., Sheehan, C., De Cieri, H., & Cooper, B. (2019). A comparative study of HR involvement in strategic decision-making in China and Australia, Chinese Management Studies, 31(2), 258-275.
• Zhu, C. J., De Cieri, H., Fan, D., & Zhang, M. M. (2018). Expatriate management in emerging economy multinational enterprises (EMNEs): reflection and future research agenda. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29(11), 1787-1798.
• Zhang, M.M., Zhu, C. J., Dowling, P. J., & Fan, D. (2017). Subsidiary response to the institutional characteristics of the host country: Strategies of multinational enterprises towards hukou-based discriminatory HRM practices in China. Personnel Review, 46(5), 870-890.
• Zhang, M. M., McNeil, N., Bartram, T., Dowling, P., Cavanagh, J., Halteh, P., & Bonias, D. (2016). Examining the ‘black box’ of human resource management in MNEs in China: exploring country of origin effects. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(8), 832-849.