. how MNCs manage the competing demands of ensuring that the organisation has an
international coherence in and cost-effective approach to the way it manages its people in all the
countries it covers, while also ensuring that it can be responsive to the differences in assumptions
about what works from one location to another’
‘. . . the ways in which the HRM function contributes to the process of globalisation within
multinational firms’
‘. . . the implications that the process of internationalisation has for the activities and policies of
HRM’