Paul Sparrow is the Director of the Centre for Performance-led HR and Professor of International Human Resource Management at Lancaster University Management School. He has consulted with major multinationals, public sector organisations and inter-governmental agencies and was an Expert Advisory Panel member to the UK Government's Sector Skills Development Agency. His research interests include cross-cultural and international HRM, HR strategy, cognition at work and changes in the employment relationship. From 2008 to 2012, he has been voted amongst the Top 15 Most Influential HR Thinkers by Human Resources magazine. Hugh Scullion is Professor of International Management at NUI Galway, Ireland. He has published in leading North American and European journals including the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of World Business, the Human Resource Management Journal and the International Human Resource Management Journal, and he has published a number of books in the area of International HRM. He has acted as consultant to multinational companies in Europe and Asia. Ibraiz Tarique is an Associate Professor of HRM and Director of Global HRM Programs at the Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York City campus. His research interests are in IHRM, GTM and investments in human capital. He has published in the International Journal of Human Resource Management, the Journal of World Business and the International Journal of Training and Development. He has presented numerous papers at the Annual AOM Meetings and is the co-author of International Human Resource Management: Policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises, a comprehensive textbook in IHRM.