International HRM is an essential text for students of international management and human resource management in an international context. The book provides a comprehensive account and critique of human resource management from a mainly cross-cultural perspective, and explains theories relevant...

Purpose – Hofstede's theory may be problematic from both a methodological/theoretical and practical view when applied to the 80 per cent of the globe we term developing. It is necessary to break out of an epistemic paradigm and a “view from nowhere” in order to focus on multiple layers of...