Human resource management (HRM) can be described within organizational and cultural contexts. Increasing interest in international HRM suggests that employment policies in different countries have been perceived as meeting a trend of uniform characteristics in the management of people. By...

The main purpose of this work is to analyze convergence or divergence phenomena of labor productivity within the industries of Colombian regions as a result of the economy’s degree of openness in the period 1967-1998. To comply with the above, the econometric technique of panel data is used....

This article critically reviews a range of theoretical approaches to cross-national employment research in terms of universal, culturalist and intermediary perspectives. These approaches have difficulty accounting for change and the co-existence of similarity and diversity, as well as being...