This article contributes to two recurring and very central debates in the international
management literature: the convergence vs. divergence debate and the standardization vs …

With its focus on locational context, International Business (IB) is a prime candidate for the
application of Case Study (CS) methodology. Yet many IB scholars still have doubts about …

This paper examines the differences between the stream of international HRM that focuses
on comparative HRM and the one that focuses on HRM in multinational enterprises (MNEs) …

This study investigated influences on employee satisfaction with HRM systems and affective
organizational commitment in a Sino‐German joint venture and a state‐owned enterprise in …

This article provides a comparative analysis of the HR practices of American, Japanese and
German companies. The starting point is an investigation of the managerial, economic, socio …

Executive Overview This paper adds to our understanding of the effects of globalization and
localization on comparative strategic human resource management by providing an …

Human resource management in Germany is deeply rooted in its institutional environment.
Thus, US style HRM cannot be simply transferred to the German context. Nevertheless, the …

Comparative Human Resource Management can be distinguished from international human
resource management (Boxall, 1995; Harris, Brewster & Sparrow, 2003). International …

An interdisciplinary theoretical framework is proposed for analysing justice in global working
conditions. In addition to gender and race as popular criteria to identify disadvantaged …

HRM appears to both believe that unitarism already exists in employment relationships and,
at the same time, sees itself as the means to achieving unitarism through the introduction of …