international management has been published in journals such as Journal of
International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organi-
zational Behavior and Organization Studies. She also published Managing the
Multinationals (Edward Elgar, 1999). Her current research interests include the
role of language in international business, the transfer of HRM practices across
borders, the interaction between language and culture in international
research, expatriates and knowledge transfer, and HQ-subsidiary relationships.Richard Hyman
Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and
Political Science (LSE) and is founding editor of the European Journal of
Industrial Relations. He has written extensively on the themes of industrial rela-
tions, collective bargaining, trade unionism, industrial conflict and labour mar-
ket policy, and is author of a dozen books as well as numerous journal articles
and book chapters. His most recent book, Understanding European Trade
Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society, was published by Sage in 2001 and
is already widely cited by scholars working in this field.Terence Jackson
Holds a bachelors degree in Social Anthropology, a masters in Education, and
a PhD in Management Psychology. He is Director of the Centre for Cross
Cultural Management Research at ESCP-EAP European School of Management
(Oxford-Paris-Berlin-Madrid). He edits, with Dr Zeynep Aycan, the International
Journal of Cross Cultural Management(Sage Publications) and has recently pub-
lished his sixth book International HRM: A Cross Cultural Approach.He has pub-
lished numerous articles on cross-cultural management ethics, management
learning and management in developing countries in such journals as Human
Resource Management,Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, andAsian
Pacific Journal of Management. He is currently directing a major research project
on Management and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa.Mila Lazarova
Recently joined the International Management Department of the Faculty of
Business Administration at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Mila’s primary
research interests are in the area of international human resource management
and, more specifically, management of global assignees. Her recent research has
been focused on issues related to retention upon repatriation and the changing
notions of international careers. She has also done research on other related
topics such as cross-cultural adjustment and the expatriate experience of
female assignees. Mila has published in the Journal of International Human
Resource Management and the Journal of World Business and her work has been
presented at conferences in North America and Europe.Paul Marginson
Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Industrial Relations
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