Journal article

Publication year: 2009

Pages: 482-501

Journal: Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volume number: 24

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 0268-3946

eISSN: 1758-7778

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940910974099

Publisher: Emerald

Abstract: 

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine which factors influence the cross-national organizational adoption of electronic human resource management (e-HRM) in Europe.

Design/methodology/approach - Major general and contextual influence factors are derived and tested based on a large-scale survey with a sample of 2,336 organizations in 23 European countries using logistic regression.

Findings - The findings first reveal that e-HRM is a common practice throughout Europe since two-thirds of all organizations have already adopted e-HRM. Major general determinants of e-HRM adoption are size, work organization, and configuration of HRM. In addition, there are major cross-national differences in e-HRM adoption, unexpectedly revealing Eastern post-communist countries to lead e-HRM adoption.

Research limitations/implications - Abundance of general and scarcity of contextual factors imply that there should be further important factors of adoption not considered in this paper. Owing to its cross-sectional character, the paper is not able to reveal findings of convergence or divergence of adoption over time.

Practical implications - HR professionals should be informed about the advanced state of e-HRM adoption, while some general insights are offered which kind of organizations should take an adoption of e-HRM into consideration.

Originality/value - This paper is a large-scale sample-based evaluation of cross-national influence factors that drive organizational adoption of e-HRM in Europe.

Harvard Citation style: Strohmeier, S. and Kabst, R. (2009) Organizational adoption of e-HRM in Europe An empirical exploration of major adoption factors, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 24(6), pp. 482-501. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940910974099

APA Citation style: Strohmeier, S., & Kabst, R. (2009). Organizational adoption of e-HRM in Europe An empirical exploration of major adoption factors. Journal of Managerial Psychology. 24(6), 482-501. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940910974099