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This editorial and special issue contributes to the development of perspectives on Human Resource Management (HRM) that are informed by political-economy standpoints. We highlight tensions within mainstream HRM theory and practitioner discourses that reflect and are best explained via political-economy based arguments in order to demonstrate the value of this approach. To advance this perspective, we develop a novel theoretical framework using various hierarchically articulated, fluid and overlapping conceptual lenses. Our model reveals theoretically possible influences of aspects of political-economy for HRM practices and outcomes, and vice versa. We argue that using multiple and overlapping theoretical lenses requires the researcher to have an open-minded, kaleidoscopic imagination. In overcoming the limitations of telescopic thinking which focuses attention ever more narrowly, the task of the researcher becomes meta-theoretical bricolage, using a range of theoretical lenses, heuristically and intuitively, to shed light on how parts of the political economy interact with specific HRM practices to affect emergent outcomes. Our approach is ontologically realist and critically pragmatic, or driven by a concern to understand the vagaries of an external and knowable political-economy, how this affects emerging HRM practices and outcomes, and vice versa. As we develop our approach and theoretical framing, we introduce the papers contained within this special issue. We conclude by highlighting the contribution of this editorial and the special issue as a whole, as well as indicating avenues for future research.
Author(s): Vincent S, Bamber G, Delbridge R, Grady J, Grugulis I
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Human Resource Management Journal
Year: 2020
Volume: 30
Issue: 4
Pages: 461-477
Print publication date: 06/11/2020
Online publication date: 06/11/2020
Acceptance date: 16/10/2020
Date deposited: 03/11/2020
ISSN (print): 0954-5395
ISSN (electronic): 1748-8583
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12328
DOI: 10.1111/1748-8583.12328
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