TY - BOOK ID - 142822193 TI - Contemporary databases and new directions in HRM in MNCs AU - Morley, Michael. AU - Collings, David G. PY - 2004 SN - 1280514515 9786610514519 1845441907 PB - Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Personnel management. KW - Management information systems. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142822193 AB - This paper focuses on the debates about globalisation - its nature and impact - and the significance of multinational companies in the global economy. Introduces the special issue of the International Journal of Manpower, based on selected papers presented at the 7th Conference on International Human Resource Management hosted by the University of Limerick in June 2003, which focused on the issue of HRM and its transferability in such corporations. The MNCis viewed as the vehicle by which dominant HR policies and practices are transported across national boundaries and the papers shed light on ER -