Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to introduce and contextualize this special issue of the
Baltic Journal of Management and provide a route map for the reader through the various …

This paper tests predictions from institutional and rational perspectives about the adoption of
organizational practices through a comparative study of human resource management in …

This new edition of Globalizing Human Resource Management examines the strategic and
global issues of HRM by showing how organizations address the tradeoffs between global …

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

Scholars increasingly emphasize the impact of institutions on multinational enterprises
(MNEs), but the opposite relationship has attracted less research–that is, MNE agency in …

There is considerable debate as to the determinants of the human resource policies of
human resource management: do they reflect national institutional or cultural realities …

There is extensive evidence that planned transfers of management practices by the
headquarters of multinational corporations (MNCs) to foreign subsidiaries are not always …

The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the
workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many more multinational …

Drawing on a dataset constructed from a parallel series of nationally representative surveys
of multinational companies (MNCs), we compare the performance management (PM) …

The impact of institutionalized contexts on the HRM activities of multinational firms has
become a focus of increasing attention in recent literature. However, theories of how …