International Human Resource Management (IHRM) has become an important field
of research. The first textbook on International Human Resource Management is approaching
its 25th birthday (Dowling & Schuler, 1990; Dowling, Festing, & Engle,
2013) and the first journal dedicated to the investigation of human resource management
topics in an international context established in 1989, the International Journal of
Human Resource Management, is also close to it 25th Volume. Another specialized journal
dedicated to international staff mobility, the Journal of Global Mobility, has been
established by a group of prominent IHRM researchers this year. A regular conference
dedicated to IHRM was established in the late 1980s and for more than 20
years this conference has convened biennially. It still enjoys strong support and the
13th Conference will be organized in Cracow, Poland in 2014.