Mark F. Peterson Professor of Management and International Business at Florida Atlantic University

Table of Contents

PART ONE: STRATEGIC, COMPARATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON IHRM Strategic Management and IHRM - Ashly H Pinnington Comparative Human Resource Management - Chris Brewster and Wolfgang Mayrhofer Culture in International Human Resource Management - Laurence Romani Human Resource Management in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions - Vladimir Pucik, Ingmar Bjorkman, Paul Evans and Gunter K Stahl Approaches to IHRM - Chris Rowley, Irene Hon-fun Poon and Malcolm Warner PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES International Assignments - B Sebastian Reiche and Anne-Wil Harzing Multinational Companies and the Host Country Environment - Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Phil Almond The Transfer of Employment Practices across Borders in Multinational Companies - Tony Edwards High Performance Work Systems - Margaret Heffernan, Patrick C Flood and Wenchuan Liu International Evidence of the Impact on Firms and Employees PART THREE: IHRM PRACTICES Managing Knowledge in Multinational Firms - Ingmar Bjorkman, Paul Evans and Vladimir Pucik The Development of Global Leaders and Expatriates - Yaw A Debrah and Christopher J Rees Global and Local Resourcing - Ying Zhu, Chris Rowley and Malcolm Warner Global Performance Management - Arup Varma and Pawan S Budhwar Total Rewards in the International Context - Meredith Burnett and Mary Ann Von Glinow PART FOUR: DEVELOPMENTS IN IHRM POLICY AND PRACTICE Women Leading and Managing Worldwide - Nancy Adler Global Work Life Management in Multinational Corporations - Helen De Cieri and Anne Bardoel Regulation and Change in Global Employment Relations - Miguel Martinez Lucio and Robert MacKenzie Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Diversity of Human Resources - Fang Lee Cooke

Author Biography

Anne-Wil is Research Professor and Research Development Advisor at ESCP Europe, London. Her research interests include international HRM, expatriate management, HQ-subsidiary relationships, the role of language in international business, the international research process, and the quality & impact of academic research. She has published or presented more than 160 books, book chapters, and academic papers about these topics in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, International Business Review, Journal of World Business, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Organization Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Learning & Education. Anne-Wil also has a keen interest in issues relating to journal quality and research performance metrics. In this context she is the editor of the Journal Quality List, the provider of Publish or Perish, a software program that retrieves and analyses academic citations, and the author of "The Publish or Perish Book: Your guide to effective and responsible citation analysis". Professor Ashly Pinnington is the Dean of the Faculty of Business at the British University in Dubai and Professor of Human Resource Management. Professor Pinnington is also an Honorary Fellow at the Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester; and a Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has worked mainly in the UK, Australia and the UAE, and co-edited and authored books for Sage, McGraw-Hill and Oxford University Press. Professor Pinnington's current research interests include: Social Responsibility, Ethics and IHRM, Leadership Development, and the Management and Internationalization of Professional Service Firms. He has published articles on these and other topics in numerous journals including: the British Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Gender Work & Organization, Leadership, and the International Journal of Project Management.