Journal article

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 2167-2184

Journal: The International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volume number: 22

Issue number: 10

ISSN: 0958-5192

eISSN: 1466-4399

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.580186

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
The present study focuses on the international staffing of early internationalizers by linking the Ethnocentric, Polycentric, Regiocentric, and Geocentric (EPRG) concept with the Process Theories of Internationalization. On a dataset of 116 (N) German medium-sized companies, we test whether the determinants which allow firms to internationalize shortly after their inception, namely prior international experience, technological intensity, and networks, influence the firms' international staffing. We further elaborate whether this influence differs between early and late internationalizers. The empirical results show that prior international experience is not associated with the firms' international staffing at all, and thus, does not allow conclusions. Technological intensity increases the probability of the choice of an ethnocentric staffing policy, especially for early internationalizers. In contrast, networks enable firms, especially early internationalizers, to pursue regiocentric or geocentric staffing policies.

Harvard Citation style: Isidor, R., Schwens, C. and Kabst, R. (2011) Human resource management and early internationalization: is there a leap-frogging in international staffing?, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 22(10), pp. 2167-2184. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.580186

APA Citation style: Isidor, R., Schwens, C., & Kabst, R. (2011). Human resource management and early internationalization: is there a leap-frogging in international staffing?. The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 22(10), 2167-2184. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.580186