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Human Resource Development Investment in Chinese Private Firms: Strategic Choice and Institutional Perspectives

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  • Liang, Jian
  • Gong, Yaping

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Integrating the strategic choice and the institutional perspectives, we provide a contextualized analysis of human resource (HR) development investment in Chinese private firms. Based on a nation-wide survey of domestic private firms, we found that strategic choice variables (i.e., private entrepreneurs’ education and governance team completeness) are positively related to HR development investment. Perceived government support for private business strengthened the positive relationships between strategic choice variables and HR development investment. Furthermore, institutional variables (i.e., owners’ political affiliation and firms’ former state ownership) explained additional variance in HR development investment above and beyond strategic choice variables. Perceived government support negatively moderated the relationship between former state ownership and HR development investment. Theoretical and policy implications were discussed at the end.

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  • Liang, Jian & Gong, Yaping, 2017. "Human Resource Development Investment in Chinese Private Firms: Strategic Choice and Institutional Perspectives," Management and Organization Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(1), pages 57-83, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:maorev:v:13:y:2017:i:01:p:57-83_00
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    1. Dai, Weiqi & Si, Steven, 2018. "Government policies and firms' entrepreneurial orientation: Strategic choice and institutional perspectives," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 23-36.
    2. Tian, Yunlin & Pan, Xiaofei & Pang, Baoqing & Wu, Yiping, 2023. "Political career concerns and bank lending in China," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    3. Muhammad Mujtaba & Sadaf Jamal & Jawaid Ahmed Qureshi & Yaseen Shaikh, 2018. "Human Capital is a Competitive Advantage of Businesses: Analysis of Automobile Firms of Pakistan," Asian Themes in Social Sciences Research, Knowledge Press, vol. 2(1), pages 16-22.

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