Employee Relations: Volume 26 Issue 6

International human resource management: overcoming disciplinary sectarianism

Mary Keating, Karen Thompson

International human resource management (IHRM) research is becoming an increasingly important topic in light of the relentless pace of globalisation. Three strands of research…

Transnational roles, transnational rewards: global integration in compensation

Allen D. Engle, Mark E. Mendenhall

This paper delineates the current “disconnect” between traditional models of executive compensation and Bartlett and Ghoshal's model of a transnational strategy, and proposes a…

The impact of institutional context on human resource management in three Chinese societies

Irene Hau‐siu Chow

The present study utilizes institutional theory as a framework to analyze human resource (HR) practices in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It looks at the…

HRM and knowledge migration across cultures: Issues, limitations, and Mauritian specificities

Paul Iles, Anita Ramgutty‐Wong, Maurice Yolles

Most discussions of knowledge, knowledge management and knowledge transfer, especially of human resource management (HRM) knowledge and its transfer, have failed to consider them…

Knowledge transfer and expatriation in multinational corporations: The role of disseminative capacity

Dana B. Minbaeva, Snejina Michailova

Research on multinational corporation (MNC) knowledge transfer has argued continuously for the behavior of knowledge senders to be a determinant of knowledge transfer. Although…