Peltokorpi, V. and Froese, F.J. (2025) Recruitment Sources and Retention Outcomes in Domestic and Foreign‐Owned Firms in Japan: A Human Capital Perspective. Human Resource Management Journal. ISSN 0954-5395
Abstract
While recruiting and retention are core human resource management functions, little attention has been given to their contextual differences in domestic and foreign-owned firms. We draw on human capital theory and used a mixed-methods approach—(1) time-lagged surveys with 755 employees and (2) semi-structured interviews with 110 managers, headhunters, and employees—to examine recruiting and turnover in domestic and foreign-owned firms in Japan. Our findings demonstrate significant differences in recruiting sources and turnover-related outcomes between these firms, partly due to the more extensive use of headhunters and recruitment of host country national employees with higher general human capital in foreign-owned firms. Our arguments and empirical evidence contribute to the literature by challenging the assumptions of human capital theory, emphasizing the role of context, and providing insights into the underlying reasons for turnover differences between domestic and foreign-owned firms.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Human Resource Management Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | foreign‐owned firms, human capital, international human resource management, Japan, recruiting sources, retention |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 May 2025 10:54 |
Last Modified: | 22 May 2025 10:54 |
Published Version: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1748-8... |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1748-8583.12605 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:226924 |