This provocation challenges the use of generational categories as a valid and useful basis for development of human resource management (HRM) research and practice. We present two provocations. First, that a focus solely ...

Guanxi, the Chinese term for social connections, has long been a key subject of interest in Chinese management research. Despite the conceptual and empirical efforts of earlier studies to address the nature, instrumentality, ...

The relationship between HRM practices and perceived firm performance was analyzed in 3,281 firms located in European Union countries using data derived from the Cranet data set. A factor analysis of 80 different HRM ...

This paper examines the antecedents of private sector managers’ propensity to communicate directly to employees in Britain and Denmark by use of largescale survey data. It tests Brewster’s (1995) argument that European ...

Purpose The purpose of this literature review is to critically analyze, synthesize and integrate the currently fragmented literature concerning the factors affecting the international transfer of individual career capital ...

Hostile environments pose a distinct threat to international organizations and their staff and yet they are under researched within the literature on IHRM. Localization of staff may present a means to manage some of the ...

We explore the landscape of HRM in North American MNCs which have been for long characterized as having an express preference for institutionalizing aspects of the home business system when operating aboard. Drawing upon ...

Our theoretical understanding and knowledge of the field of international assignments (IAs) has expanded enormously since Edström and Galbraith’s (1977) seminal paper evaluating the reasons that organisations use ...