Multinational corporations, human resource management and host-country nationals

This paper provides an overview of the articles contained in this special issue of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. The theme of this issue is the nature and impact of the human resource management practices of multinational corporations as applied to host-country nationals employed in subsidiaries. The editors first lay out some conceptual and ethical considerations relevant to this topic. We then provide a synopsis of each article and discuss some of the linkages among these. Finally, we lay out implications drawn for these articles, as well as the literature more generally, for future research in this area.