The dynamic nature of the management function in global business today and the realisation that what works effectively in one country may not be as efficient in another has led management scholars and practising managers in continuous efforts to enhance their understanding of this environment and its effects to managers. This chapter explores management across cultures. The discussion starts wi...

Much of our knowledge of expatriation and the processes of managing expatriates comes from North American researchers analysing the policies and practices of North American multinational corporations. This article uses that base of understanding, but argues that there has been an increasing stream of research into IHRM in Europe, which remains largely “invisible” to the North American specialis...

Ontologies represent an important source of prior information which lends itself to the integration into statistical modeling. This paper discusses approaches towards employing ontological knowledge for relational learning. Our analysis is based on the IHRM model that performs relational learning by including latent variables that can be interpreted as cluster variables of the entities in the d...

The International Human Resource Management (IHRM) research on international assignments (IA) is characterised by a domination of US studies and a strong focus on multinational companies (MNC), disregarding that smalland middlesized enterprises (SME) represent close to 90% of all firms in most industries. Our study addresses these shortcomings by providing data from the German chemical industry...

This paper responds to calls for theory development in relation processual and meso-level explanations of ‘crossvergence’ strategic partnerships. It contributes by reviewing the extant literature on convergence-divergence-crossvergence context global information technology (IT) industry argues presence ‘multivergence’ or ‘multiple configurations crossvergence’ an sector that relies extensively ...

While most research in the international business field focuses on impact of national institutional environment multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper explores opposite relationship—the role and MNE subsidiaries host country environment. I analyze subsidiaries' agency transfer activities human resource management (HRM) practices by bringing case IKEA Korea Japan find that these not only a...