The brand-new edition of this handbook builds on the success of the first by providing a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of human resource management. It remains an indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in the field.

Global firms often struggle to replicate practices among their culturally and geographically dispersed subsidiaries. Part of the reason for this is that certain practices, including human resource management (HRM) practices, are complex and context specific. In this study, we develop a framework...

Scholars seeking to understand the origin of dynamic capabilities have struggled to articulate specific capabilities and locate their source of variation within the firm. We propose that the transnational imperative and a microfoundations approach to knowledge search can help to develop this...