Gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage -- A framework for managing human resources -- The hr triad -- Looking ahead: five special themes -- Current issues -- Chapter summary with learning goals -- Terms to remember -- Questions for discussion and reflective thinking -- Projects to extend...

We introduce the concept of ‘individual action propensity’ to examine the approach of individuals towards solving situations for which they lack knowledge and/or experience about what to do. We focus on a naturally contrasting pair of responses: ‘thinking before acting’ or ‘acting...

Can Dunning's OLI (Ownership, Location, Internalization) framework be used to predict the best performing international entry modes or merely the most commonly selected modes? Using data from German and Dutch firms investing in Central and Eastern Europe, we investigate the relationship between...

Increasingly, scholars have suggested that there is a need to approach the problem of international risk from a multidimensional perspective [Brouthers 1995; Miller 1993; Shan 1991]. Miller [1992, 1993] developed and tested the most comprehensive framework to date. Miller [1993] showed high inter-rater...