Global HRM and transnational networks:Unpacking the micro-behavioral process supporting global HRM integration using a quantitative multi-source, multi-level design

Tregaskis, Olga ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9954-5152, Wu, Christoph FD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1171-1417, Daniels, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8620-886X, Hogg, Martin, Almond, Philip, Edwards, Tony, Kern, Philipp and Kim, Kyoungmi (2018) Global HRM and transnational networks:Unpacking the micro-behavioral process supporting global HRM integration using a quantitative multi-source, multi-level design. Human Resource Management Journal. ISSN 0954-5395 (In Press)

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Abstract

Whether and why social processes support global HRM integration is an overlooked, yet increasingly relevant performance question in decentralized transnational work environments. Using social capital theory, we conceptualize the social dynamic and behaviors influencing global HRM integration. Interview data from 63 professionals in transnational professional service firms (PSF) were used to develop measures for a multi-source multi-level diary study (study 1) and a multi-source multi-level cross-sectional survey (study 2). Our research shows that involvement of network members in integrating global HRM activities increases their commitment to the shared goals of the network, but only when leaders simultaneously engage in translational and collaboration behaviors. These leader behaviors demonstrate a collaboration mechanism where corporate-local tensions might reconcile. Our work illustrates the significance of examining the multiplicity of spaces where global HRM is enacted to better explain how and why global integration is progressed or resisted.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	global employees,social behaviors,global hrm,international networks,organizational behavior and human resource management,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth,sdg 9 - industry, innovation, and infrastructure,4* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1407
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2026 13:04
Last Modified:	23 Aug 2026 23:02
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/104223
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