Completing the Puzzle: Issues in the Development of the Field of International Human Resource Management

The aim of this paper is to examine developments in the field of IHRM. Three issues are examined: first, the various approaches which have been taken to the study of IHRM; second, the variables which moderate differences between domestic and international HRM; and third, recent work which examines the topic of strategic human resource management in multinational enterprises (MNEs).

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