David G. Collings is Professor of Human Resource Management at Dublin City University, Ireland. He has published widely in the field of international HRM with a focus on global talent management and global staffing issues. Geoffrey T. Wood is Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, UK. His research interests centre on the relationship between national institutional setting, corporate governance, firm finance, and firm-level work and employment relations and he has published widely on these issues. Paula M. Caligiuri is a D’Amore-McKim Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University, USA, where she researches and teaches in the area of cultural agility and global leadership development.
'These three distinguished professors in international human resource management have crafted an excellent set of chapters prepared by an outstanding collection of authors from every corner of the world! The editors and chapter authors do a terrific job in providing an excellent review of their specific topics and suggesting directions for further work. The result is a splendid and unique contribution to the field of international human resource management, one sure to be enjoyed and utilized by faculty, students and practitioners everywhere.' - Randall S. Schuler, Distinguished Professor, Strategic International Human Resource Management, Rutgers University, USA 'This is an excellent, comprehensive and thoughtful book with a strong cast of authors which will be valuable to both generalist and specialist readers.' - Adrian Wilkinson, Professor of Employment Relations, Griffith University, Australia 'This is a much needed and timely book and a must-read for academics and students in the field. It not only assembles the authoritative voices in the text it also frames IHRM in a new and insightful way. In particular, the topics addressed in the final section indicate the major issues of current research and practice in IHRM which are important for its future development.' - Professor Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria