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issues and limitations with the endeavour of improving the current theoretical

models. Her research is inspired by an interpretative approach.

Hugh Scullion

Professor of International HRM at Strathclyde University. He previously worked

at Nottingham and Warwick Business Schools. Hugh is a Visiting Professor at

the Business Schools of Toulouse and Grenoble and also at Limerick University.

He consults with leading international firms such as Rolls Royce and Bank of

Ireland. Hugh researches on international strategy and international HRM in

European multinationals and has developed a strong network of HR directors

in Europe. He has written several books and over fifty specialist articles in

International HRM. Hugh’s latest books are International HRM: A Critical Text

(Palgrave, 2004) and Global Staff ing(Routledge, 2004).

Keith Sisson

Head of Strategy Development at the UK’s Advisory, Conciliation and

Arbitration Service and Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations in the

Warwick Business School’s Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU), having

previously been its Director. In recent years, he has been extensively involved

in cross-national comparative research involving projects funded by the UK’s

Economic and Science Research Council and the European Foundation for the

Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, including those on the role

of direct participation in organizational change, the impact of EMU and the

handling of restructuring. A book with Paul Marginson summarising many of

the results of this work (European Integration and Industrial Relations: Multi-level

Governance in the Making) is due to be published by Palgrave in 2004.

Günter K. Stahl

Assistant Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD.

Prior to joining INSEAD, he was Assistant Professor of Leadership and Human

Resource Management at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He also held vis-

iting positions at the Fuqua School of Business and the Wharton School of the

University of Pennsylvania. Günter has (co-) authored several books as well as

numerous journal articles in the areas of leadership and leadership development,

cross-cultural management, and internationalhuman resource management. His

current research interests also include international careers, trust within and

between organizations, and the management of mergers and acquisitions.

Arndt Sorge

Professor of Organization Studies at the Faculty of Management and

Organization, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has mainly

worked in international comparisons of work, organization, human resources,

technical change and industrial relations. This has implied uninterrupted expa-

triation through a succession of positions at several universities and research

institutes in Germany, his native country, The Netherlands, Britain and France.

Next to writing more specialist publications, based on field research in three

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