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"Contents: Part 1: Strategy and international HRM -- International HRM: an introduction / Hugh Scullion -- Strategic HRM in multinational companies / Hugh Scullion and Jaap Paauwe -- Staffing policies and practices in European MNCs: strategic sophistication, culture-bound policies or ad hoc reactivity? / Ingemar Torbiorn -- Part 2: Managing the international HR cycle -- Training learning and development in multinational organization / Paula Caligiuri, Mila Lazarova and Ibraiz Tarique -- Expatriate performance management in MNCs / Marja Tahvanainen and Vesa Suutari -- International compensation: costs and benefits of international assignments / Jaime Bonache and Zulima Fernandez -- International careers and repatriation / Margaret Linehan and Wolfgang Mayrhofer -- Issues in the management of industrial relations in international firms / Emer O'Hagan, Patrick Gunnigle and Michael J. Morle -- Part 3: Contemporary issues in international HRM -- Women in international management / Margarer Linehan -- Managing human resources in cross-border alliances / Randall S. Schuler, Susan E. Jackson and Jacqueline Fendt -- Western business expatriates in China: adjusting to the most foreign of all foreign places / Jan Selmer -- International HRM in developing countries / Pawan S. Budhwar and Yaw A. Debrah -- Part 4: Emerging issues in international HRM -- Shaping history: global leadership in the twenty-first century / Nancy J. Adler -- International HRM in the twenty-first century: crossing boundaries, building connections / Sully Taylor and Nancy K. Napier."