Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an in‐depth description of the process of institutionalisation and development of human resource management (HRM) practices in subsidiaries of German multinational companies in Russia. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the differences and similarities in the HRM frames of middle-level managers and HR professionals, and to uncover the roots and contents of (dis)agreements in the HRM frames among HR professionals and middle-level managers....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the current state of employee training practices in a sample of Iranian‐based organisations. Design/methodology/approach – The research approach adopted for the study conforms to qualitative research in the form of multiple case study...

Purpose This paper aims to examine diversity management (DM) practices in leading private-sector organizations in Iran. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on in-depth interviews with 23 human resource management (HRM) executives and supervisors in nine private sector companies in Iran,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and understand corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human resource management (HRM) practices of the UK and Japan, who share opposing societal and cultural characteristics, from a national business system (NBS) perspective, to answer the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate what happens when a lack of role-sending results in ambiguous change agent roles during a large scale organisational reconfiguration. The authors consider the role of sensemaking in resolving role ambiguity of middle manager change agents...