From the mid-1980s to the turn of the 1990s the International HR field was considered to be in its infancy. * Broadens the IHRM field to cover comparative and institutional perspectives * Provides a multi-level analysis of globalization phenomena at the individual, organization, and macro level * Focuses on the current problems and issues driving the attention of IHRM Directors..
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.
This volume gives attention to those aspects of MNC behaviour - choices about location, how they organize local subsidiaries, choices made about technology, capital and labour, and choices made about investments and strategies - that are subject to institutional influences.
This book brings together the latest research on important \'issues-driven\' concerns that the field of IHRM now has to face, absorb, interpret then reanalyse through International lenses.
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.
From the mid-1980s to the turn of the 1990s the International HR field was considered to be in its infancy
