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researched and published extensively on the management of employment

relations in MNCs and on the Europeanization of industrial relations. Major recent

projects include studies of the agreements establishing, and the practice and

impact of, European Works Councils; the industrial relations implications of

Economic and Monetary Union; and European dimensions to sector and com-

pany collective bargaining. A book with Keith Sisson – European Integration and

Industrial Relations: Multi-level Governance in the Making– is due to be published

by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2004.

Mark E. Mendenhall

Holds the J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership at the

University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. He is past president of the International

Division of the Academy of Management, and has authored numerous journal arti-

cles in international human resource management.His most recent book is Developing

Global Business Leaders: Policies, Processes, and Innovations(Quorum Books).

Jaap Paauwe

(PhD, Erasmus University) is Professor of Business and Organization at the

Rotterdam School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has writ-

ten and co-authored eleven books on human resource management and pub-

lished numerous papers on HRM, industrial relations and organizational

change. Twice (1997 and 2001) he was in charge of the editing of a special issue

on HRM and Performance for the International Journal of HRM. He is research

fellow and coordinator for the research programme on ‘Organizing for

Performance’ of the Erasmus Research Institute for Management (ERIM). Fields

of interest include human resource management, industrial relations, organi-

zational change, new organizational forms and corporate strategy.

Vladimir Pucik

Professor of International Human Resources and Strategy at IMD, Lausanne,

Switzerland. Born in Prague, he received his PhD in business administration

from Columbia University in New York and previously taught at Cornell

University and the University of Michigan. He also spent three years as a visit-

ing scholar at Keio and Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. Dr Pucik teaches reg-

ularly on executive development programmes in Europe, the US and Asia, and

has consulted and conducted workshops for major corporations worldwide. His

major works include The Global Challenge: Frameworks for International HRM,

Accelerating International Growth andGlobalizing Management: Creating and Leading

the Competitive Organization.

Laurence Romani

Research Associate at the Institute of International Business (IIB) of the

Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). She studied social anthropology

and sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her research interests are in the field of

cross-cultural management. She is currently preparing her dissertation, which

focuses on quantitative studies of culture and management. She addresses their

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