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Product architecture and human resource management : Comparing Japanese, Chinese, and Korean firms based on a questionnaire survey
- Product architecture and human resource management
- Tsuru, Tsuyoshi; Nakajima, Kentaro
- Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University
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Product architecture and human resource management
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| Sub Title | Comparing Japanese, Chinese, and Korean firms based on a questionnaire survey |
| Material Type | Article |
| Author(English) |
Tsuru, Tsuyoshi; Nakajima, Kentaro |
| Publisher |
[Tokyo] : Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University |
| Date | 2012-03 |
| Journal Title; Vol./Issue | Discussion Paper Series A:no. 563 |
| Pages | 37 |
| Subject Country | South Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
| Language | English |
| File Type | Link |
| Original Format | |
| Subject | Social Development < Education Social Development < Employment Social Development < Others |
| Holding | The Society of Labor Economists |
| License |  |
Abstract
Using data from a questionnaire survey focusing on firms from Japan, China, and South Korea, this paper empirically examines the complementarity between product architecture and human resource (HR) management. The results of the analysis can be summarized as follows. First, in Japan and Korea, firms were more or less evenly divided between those employing a modular and those employing an integral architecture. On the other hand, in China, more firms employed a modular architecture. Second, with regard to HR management practices and customs, there were differences in the emphasis of internal training of new graduates and the emphasis of mid-career recruitment. Japan and China are at the two extremes, with firms in the former tending to emphasize the recruitment of new graduates and firms in the latter emphasizing mid-career recruitment, while firms from Korea were in-between, but closer to Japan. (The rest omitted)
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