Handbook of research on comparative human resource management
edited by Chris Brewster, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK, Vaasa University, Finland and Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, WU Vienna, Austria and Elaine Farndale, School of Labor and Employment Relations, The Pennsylvania State University, US and Tilburg University, the Netherlands
1. The meaning and value of comparative human resource management: an introduction / Elaine Farndale, Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Chris Brewster -- Part I Theoretical, conceptual and empirical issues in comparative HRM -- 2. Comparative institutional analysis and comparative HRM / Geoffrey Wood, Alexandros Psychogios, Leslie T. Szamosi and David G. Collings -- 3. Cultural perspectives on comparative HRM / B. Sebastian Reiche, Yih-teen Lee and Javier Quintanilla -- 4. Critical approaches to comparative HRM / Tuomo Peltonen and Eero Vaara -- 5. Methodological challenges for quantitative research in comparative HRM / Ingo Weller and Barry Gerhart -- 6. The anthropological comparative method as a means of analysing and solving pressing issues in comparative HRM / Fiona Moore and Mary Yoko Brannen -- Part II HRM tasks and themes -- 7. Recruitment and selection in context / Elaine Farndale, Irene Nikandrou and Leda Panayotopoulou -- ^8. Comparative total rewards policies and practices / Ihar Sahakiants, Marion Festing, Allen D. Engle Sr. and Peter J. Dowling -- 9. Comparing performance management across contexts / Paul Boselie, Elaine Farndale and Jaap Paauwe -- 10. Human resource development: national embeddedness / Olga Tregaskis and Noreen Heraty -- 11. Comparative employment relations: definitional, disciplinary and development issues / Werner Nienh user and Chris Warhurst -- 12. The psychological contract within the international and comparative HRM literature / Paul Sparrow -- 13. Positive and negative application of flexible working time arrangements: comparing the united states of america and the EU countries / Lonnie Golden, Stephen Sweet and Heejung Chung -- 14. Comparative career studies: conceptual issues and empirical results / Mila Lazarova, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Jon Briscoe, Michael Dickmann, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall and Emma Parry -- ^15. Financial participation: the nature and causes of national variation / Andrew Pendleton, Erik Poutsma and Paul E.M. Ligthart -- 16. Comparative perspectives on diversity and equality: the challenges of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and religion / Gwendolyn Combs, Rana Haq, Alain Klarsfeld, Lourdes Susaeta and Esperanza Suarez -- 17. Organising HRM in a comparative perspective / Julia Brandl, Anna Bos-Nehles and Ina Aust -- 18. The intersection between information technology and human resource management from a cross-national perspective: towards a research model / Huub J. M. Ru el and Tanya Bondarouk -- 19. Sustainable HRM: a comparative and international perspective / Ina Aust, Michael Muller-Camen and Erik Poutsma -- Part III Regional perspectives -- 20. HRM Practice and scholarship in North America / Susan E. Jackson, Andrea Kim and Randall S. Schuler -- 21. Revisiting the Latin American HRM model / Anabella Davila and Marta M. Elvira -- ^22. HRM in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean / Sergio M. Madero-G omez and Miguel R. Olivas-Luj an -- 23. Comparative HRM research in South America: a call for comparative institutional approaches / Michel Hermans -- 24. HRM in Western Europe: differences without, differences within / Chris Brewster, Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Paul Sparrow -- 25. The transition states of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / Michael J. Morley, Dana Minbaeva and Snejina Michailova -- 26. HRM in the Middle East / Pawan Budhwar and Kamel Mellahi -- 27. HRM in Northern Africa / David B. Zoogah, Elham Kamal Metwally and Tarek Tantoush -- 28. HRM in Sub-Saharan Africa: comparative perspectives / Christine Bischoff and Geoffrey Wood -- 29. HRM in the Indian subcontinent / Pawan Budhwar, Arup Varma and Manjusha Hirekhan -- 30. HRM and Asian socialist economies in transition: China, Vietnam and North Korea / Ngan Collins, Ying Zhu and Malcolm Warner -- ^31. Japan, Korea and Taiwan: issues and trends in HRM / Philippe Debroux, Wes Harry, Shigeaki Hayashi, Heh Jason Huang, Keith Jackson and Toru Kiyomiya -- 32. Comparative HRM research in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines / Vivien T. Supangco and Jessica A. Los Ba nos -- 33. Styles of HRM in Australia and New Zealand / Peter Boxall, Hugh Bainbridge and Stephen Frenkel -- Part IV Concluding remarks -- 34. Future avenues for comparative HRM / Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Chris Brewster and Elaine Farndale -- Index