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. 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. 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.

• 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