Handbook of International Human Resource Management: Integrating People Process and Context

From the mid-1980s to the turn of the 1990s the field was considered to be in its infancy. There continues to be both an evolution of territory covered by the field - a series of successively evolving cultural, geographical and institutional challenges faced by the multinational corporation (MNC) - as well as more critical questioning whether this has created an expanded or a fragmented field. This book brings together the latest research on important ‘issues-driven’ concerns that the field of IHRM now has to face, absorb, interpret then reanalyze through international lenses. This volume gives attention to those aspects of MNC behavior - choices about location, how they organize local subsidiaries, choices made about technology, capital and labor, and choices made about investments and strategies - that are subject to institutional influences. It also gives voice to a number of contemporary issues - reverse knowledge flows, skill supply strategies, employer branding, e-enablement, outsourcing, global networks - that now need to be accommodated within the field.