In this increasingly competitive era, internationalization strategy has adopted by firms and international human has been regarded as the essential factor that affects the operation of MNEs. Based on contingency theory and the induction method to analyze and collect data from the literature, this paper attempts to construct an International human strategies framework for different internationalization situations. Furthermore, we interviewed with related staffs in four Taiwan enterprises that adopted various International human strategies to correspond the four internationalization situations considered in this study. We hope this international human strategies framework will facilitate MNEs to create and maintain their competitive advantages.
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