Edited by Jon Briscoe, Professor of Management, College of Business, Northern Illinois University, US, Michael Dickmann, Professor of International Human Resource Management, School of Management, Cranfield University, UK, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Professor Emeritus, Boston University, US, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour, WU Vienna, Austria and Emma Parry, Professor of Human Resource Management, School of Management, Cranfield University, UK