International Human Resource Management

Mila B. Lazarova is an Associate Professor of International Management at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her research interests include expatriate management, work/life balance issues related to assignments, global careers, and comparative human resource management. She has published numerous papers in scholarly journals and edited volumes and currently sits on four editorial boards. She is the Associate Director of the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at SFU. Michael J. Morley is Professor of Management at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland, where he teaches international management. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Managerial Psychology, Regional Editor of the European Journal of International Management and is a member of the Editorial Board of several other international journals He is the current Chair of the Irish Academy of Management and is President Elect of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management.Shaun Tyson is Emeritus Professor of Human Resource Management at Cranfield University, UK, where he taught and directed the Human Resource Research Centre for over 20 years. .He has been an academic for 30 years, following a career as an HR executive working in the private sector, as well as working in the Civil Service on labour market analysis and on Development. He has published 20 books in the field. His areas of interest are HR strategy, and rewards, as well as corporate governance and the application of social science to the study of HRM.

• Introduction: International comparative studies in HRM and performance – the Cranet data 1. Coordinated vs. liberal market HRM: the impact of institutionalization on multinational firms 2. North American MNCs and their HR policies in liberal and coordinated market economies 3. The impact of bundles of strategic human resource management practices on the performance of European firms 4. Training and firm performance in Europe: the impact of national and organizational characteristics 5. Effects of work-family human resource practices: a longitudinal perspective 6. New insights into the link between HRM integration and organizational performance: the moderating role of influence distribution between HRM specialists and line managers 7. The influence of social policy practices and gender egalitarianism on strategic integration of female HR directors