ERIC Number: EJ1413564
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0018-1560
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Reconciling Multiple Institutional Logics for Ambidexterity: Human Resource Management Reforms in Chinese Public Universities
Jie Xia; Mingqiong Mike Zhang; Jiuhua Cherrie Zhu; Di Fan
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, v87 n3 p611-636 2024
Over the past several decades, Chinese universities have introduced various Western-style human resource management (HRM) practices to improve organizational performance. Such HRM innovations have resulted in new employment relations and paradoxical HR practices, which cannot be explained by the unitary institutional logic assumed by conventional HRM theories. Based on in-depth interviews of academic and administrative members, this study examines how Chinese universities struggle to reconcile competing institutional logics through HR innovations for ambidexterity. Our research reveals a unique transformation trajectory of personnel management in Chinese public universities. The findings indicate that human resource management in Chinese universities has been influenced by multiple logics of socialism, market, and corporation, heading along the neoliberal and managerial route while being shaped by strong state regulations. Chinese universities still have a long way to go to reconcile multiple institutional logics and achieve ambidexterity.
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, State Universities, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Organizational Effectiveness, Innovation, Neoliberalism, Social Systems, Administrative Organization, Government School Relationship
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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