Contemporary Human Resource Management Practices in Russia: Flexibility under Uncertainty

Ch. 6.

Kabalina V., Zelenova O., Reshetnikova K.

Context is increasingly recognised as a critical explanatory variable in accounting for commonalities and differences in human resource management. Giving expression to it in research models holds the prospect of enhancing theory development, deepening our appreciation of embedded practices in diverse territories, and opening up new lines of enquiry. However, contextualisation presents a significant research challenge and increasingly, international academic research networks that bring together scholars from different countries in the co-production of knowledge represent a key approach to rising to this challenge. This volume documents aspects of the development of one such network, namely the Cranet Network on International Human Resource Management, and presents a series of recent contributions from the network. The chapters highlight, inter alia, the limits to convergence in human resource management as a result of contextual determinism, the role of institutional actors, markets, and work regulation in accounting for variations in practices, the contextual specificities and dynamics at play in transition economies, along with key methodological challenges that arise when seeking to build cumulative comparative knowledge via network collaborations of this nature.

Keywords: управление человеческими ресурсами, контекст, context, международные сравнительные исследования, comparative human resource management, Cranet network, сеть Кранет

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Comparative Human Resource Management: Contextual Insights from International Research Collaboration

Routledge, 2021.