The World of Neil Semuel Rupidara

Friends and readers,

Welcome to my weblog. This is my ‘world’ that I’d love to share with you. Hope that you could make use of it for your own interests.

Before you take your time to see around, let me first introduce myself to you all. My name is Neil Semuel Rupidara. Just call me Neil. Like colleagues at my Faculty, you may either call me Sem.

I am a lecturer at Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia. My specific area of interests is Strategic International Human Resource Management. It is an application of Strategic HRM in the context of multinational companies (MNCs). To study that field, I use a number of persperctives such as the Resource-based View of the firm (RBV), Institutional Theory, and Knowledge Transfer, Micro-politics. Beside that major interest, I am also interested in areas like organisational studies, leadership, change management, and also higher education and adult pedagogy.

I am now currently on study leave. I am doing my PhD at Department of Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, Macquarie University in Sydney. I started this program in March 2008. My research is about the process to develop HRM systems at foreign (Australian) MNCs in Indonesia. It is designed to be a qualitative case study research to explore and theorise the construction of HR systems. I am just starting it so it’s not the right time to tell it more here.

To give you some more information on my previous works, below are a number of my previous publications.

In front of the Castle of Turku, Finland

Publications:

Rupidara, N.S., & McGraw, P. (2009). Actors, institutional change and stability in Indonesian industrial relations system. Presented at the 15th World Congress of International Industrial Relations Association, Sydney, Australia, 26 August.

Rupidara, N.S., & McGraw, P. (2009). Actors amidst pressures: The configuration of HR systems within a multinational context. Presented at the 10th International Human Resource Management Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 23 June.

Rupidara, N.S., & McGraw, P. (2008). HR practices and institutional isomorphism among multinational and local companies in Indonesia. HRM Global 2008 Proceeding, HRM Study Group, IIRA – Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland.

Marten, J. H.; Ndoen, M.L, ; & Rupidara, N.S. (2007). Corporate social responsibility perusahaan multinasional kepada masyarakat sekitar: Studi kasus  (Corporate social responsibility of a multinational company: A case study in Central Java, Jurnal Manajemen dan Usahawan, Vol. 36 No. 03)

Rupidara, N.S. dkk (Editors) (2006). 50 Tahun UKSW: Mempertegas identitas creative minority. Salatiga: Satya Wacana University Press.

Rupidara, N.S. (2005). Paradoks: Tantangan kepemimpinan dan organisasi kontemporer (Paradox: A contemporary challenge of leadership and organisation; Jurnal Kajian Interdisipliner Bina Darma No 68 Th. 23)

Budiyanti, S. K., & Rupidara, N.S. (2005). Konfusianisme dan taktik negosiasi orang China (Confucianism and Chinese negotiation tactics) (Jurnal Ekonomi Perusahaan IBII Vol. 10 No. 1 (March)

Rupidara, N. S., Prajudo, N.D. (2003). Pembelajaran dalam komunitas konsultasi manajemen (Learning within the community of management consulting), Jurnal Manajemen dan Usahawan No. 12 (Desember).

Poluan, L.A, Dwiadmadja, C. & Rupidara, N. S. (2003). Penyesuaian diri tenaga kerja asing studi kasus pada PT Schumberger Geophysic Nusantara, Balik Papan – Klimantan Timur. Dalam Jurnal Ekonomi Perusahaan vol. 10 no. 1, page 56.

Sulandjari, S. & Rupidara, N. (CEMSED — Center for Micro & Small Enterprise Dynamics) (2002). Value Chain Analysis of Furniture Clusters in Central Java. Report on a survey prepared for the ILO, Salatiga.

Sandee, H., Sulandjari, S., and Rupidara, Neil (2002). Business networks and value chains in furniture production : An analysis of demand-supply relationships of teak furniture from Central Java, Indonesia. First draft of a report to the ILO, Amsterdam, December.

Rupidara, N. S. (2001), Model Transnasional dalam pengelolaan perusahaan multinasional: Suatu uraian teoritis pada aspek strategi dan struktur, Jurnal Kinerja Vol. 5 No. 2 (Desember).