International Human Resource Management-MJ Version

Tony Edwards

Lecturer in Comparative Management at King’s College, London. His research is

in the area of employment relations in MNCs. One of the themes of this research

is the diffusion of employment practices across borders within MNCs, with a spe-

cific focus on the process of ‘reverse diffusion’ in which practices are diffused from

foreign subsidiaries back to the domestic operations of MNCs. Currently he is

working on two projects, one of which is concerned with the ‘country of origin’

effect in American MNCs in the UK, while the other is concerned with the man-

agement of employment relations following a cross-border merger or acquisition.

Paul Evans

The Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organizational

Development and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD, where he

has led INSEAD’s activities in the field of human resource and organizational

management since the early 1980s. He is co-author of Must Success Cost So

Much?, a pioneering study on the professional and private lives of executives;

Human Resource Management in International Firms: Change, Globalization,

Innovation, and The Global Challenge: Frameworks for International Human

Resource Management. He has a degree in law from Cambridge University, an

INSEAD MBA, a Danish business diploma, and his PhD is from MIT.

Marilyn Fenwick

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at Monash University. She was

awarded her PhD on expatriate performance management by the University of

Melbourne. She has published journal articles and book chapters in the areas of

international human resource management and international management.

Marilyn convenes a special interest group in International HRM for the Australian

Human Resources Institute in Victoria. Her research interests concern: non-

standard and virtual international assignments; human resources development

and performance management in multinationals; strategic HRM in international

inter-organizational networks and international non-profit organizations.

Hilary Harris

Director of the Centre for Research into the Management of Expatriation

(CREME) at Cranfield School of Management. Dr Harris has had extensive

experience as an HR practitioner and has undertaken consultancy with a broad

range of organizations in the public and private sectors. Her specialist areas of

interest are International HRM, expatriate management, cross-cultural man-

agement and women in management. She teaches, consults and writes exten-

sively in these areas. Hilary was one of the lead researchers on the CIPD

flagship research programme looking at the impact of globalization on the role

of the HR professional.

Anne-Wil Harzing

Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the University of

Melbourne. Her work on HQ-subsidiary relationships, staffing policies and

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