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Chapter 08

http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/pdf/Human.pdf
PDF relating to international Human resource management with particular concern paid to gender and cultural issues. Paper given by John J. Lawler, Feb 1999.

http://www.cipd.co.uk/research/_inthrm.htms
The CIPD website and its advice concerning international HRM. The page includes numerous links to reports, software tools and articles, some of these require payment. However, a large proportion is free.

http://www.hrmguide.net/hrm/chap5/ch5-links1.htm
HRM guide to international Human Resource Management, includes notes on cultural difference and the geographical interpretations of employment law. Challenges notions that important ideas always move from the west to less developed nations.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4256/is_n2_v19/ai_14561097/pg_1
An intergrative approach to international Human Resource Management from the Journal of Management, Summer, 1993 by Randall S. Schuler, Peter J. Dowling, Helen De Cieri. While exploring the Marco economic model within which companies increasingly operate the authors draw attention to the importance of local knowledge and awareness of cultural difference.

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/journal/v38/n3/full/8400267a.html
‘Institutional theory and MNC subsidiary HRM practices: evidence from a three-country study’ written by Ingmar Björkman, Carl F. Fey, and Hyeon Jeong Park. The article examines the experiences of 158 subsidiaries of US, European and Japanese MNC’s setting up in Russia, Finland and the US. The study investigates the differing practices of HRM in host countries and also the transfer of knowledge from these subsidiaries back to the main MNC.
Situated in the Journal for International Business Studies that holds a wealth of information on international HRM.

https://ozbilgin.sslpowered.com/publications/papers/Ozbilgin%20PR.pdf
Article examines the claims and realities of International HRM and its wish to offer a global model of HRM. Written by Mustafa Ozbilgin from the School of Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. With particular note made to journals and the academic claims of western HRM theory the article offers a view of a more inclusive approach to research and writing in IHRM.