International Human Resource Management 6th Edition by Peter J Dowling
ISBN-13: 9781408032091
ISBN-10: 1408032090
According to the 2012 World Investment Report issued by the United Nations the foreign affiliates of
MNEs employed an estimated 69 million workers, who generated $28 trillion in sales and $7 trillion in
value-added, some 9% up from 2010. In 1990, when the first edition of this textbook was published, a
total of 24 million workers were employed. This is merely one of many metrics that demonstrate the extent
of the globalization of business. With this increase in scale, the role of human resource management in sustaining
this increase in international business activity is a central theme of this Sixth Edition of our textbook.
In writing this new edition we have responded to feedback from users of previous editions and
reorganized the format for the Sixth Edition into 10 chapters instead of 12 chapters. In carefully revising
and updating the chapter Endnotes for this new edition we have been very careful to avoid the common
trap of multiple editions ? simply piling on more and more endnotes and leaving the reader to wade
through the growing lists. By carefully culling Endnotes and the Further Reading sections at the end of each
chapter our intention is to provide a reader just being introduced to the fascinating topic of HRM in a multinational
context with a reasonable set of critical references as a starting point for their studies. At the same
time, our more advanced readers will be able to evaluate our assessment of the most recent significant citations
along with what we consider ?classic? empirical or conceptual articles and books.
