Includes bibliographical references and index.

Looking inside for competitive advantage / Jay B. Barney -- Understanding human resource management in the context of organizations and their environments / Susan E. Jackson and Randall S. Schuler -- Implications of the converging economy for human resource management / Suzanne Zivnuska, David J. Ketchen, Jr. and Charles C. Snow -- Human resources and the resource based view of the firm / Patrick M. Wright, Benjamin B. Dunford and Scott A. Snell -- The complex resource-based view: implications for theory and practice in strategic human resource management / Barry A. Colbert -- Alignment of human resources and their impact on business performance / Dave Ulrich -- Converting global presence into global competitive advantage / Anil K. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan -- Human resource strategy in international context / Paul R. Sparrow and Werner Braun -- Reframing global mindset: from thinking to acting / Vladimir Pucik -- A quarter-century review of human resource management in the U.S.: the growth in importance of the international perspective / Randall S. Schuler and Susan E. Jackson -- European human resource management: researching developments over time / Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Chris Brewster -- HRM in China / Fang Lee Cooke -- HRM in India / Debi S. Saini and Pawan S. Budhwar -- HR strategy and competitive advantage in the service sector / Peter Boxall -- Managing the human resource architecture for knowledge-based competition / David P. Lepak and Scott A. Snell -- New HR metrics: scoring on the business scorecard / Richard W. Beatty, Mark A. Huselid and Craig Eric Schneier -- Strategies for responsible restructuring / Wayne F. Cascio -- The three-dimensional people strategy: putting human resources policies into action / Lynda Gratton and Catherine Truss -- Seeing the elephant: human resource management challenges in the age of globalization / Mark E. Mendenhall, J.Stewart Black, Robert J. Jensen, and Hal B. Gregersen -- The changing role of the corporate HR function in global organizations of the twenty-first century / Milorad M. Novicevic and Michael Harvey -- People processing systems and human resource strategy / Shaun Tyson and Doone Selbie.