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THE GLOBAL DIFFUSION OF HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES: INSTITUTIONAL AND CULTURAL LIMITS EDITED BY
JOHN J. LAWLER Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
GREG HUNDLEY Krannert School of Business Purdue University, USA
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Gayle Allard
IE Business School, Maria de Molina, Madrid, Spain
Alexandre Ardichvili
Department of Work and Human Resource Education, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
Shyh-jer Chen
Institute of Human Resource Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Khalil M. Dirani
Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Tony Edwards
Department of Management, King’s College London, London, UK
Frank M. Horwitz
Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
I-Chieh Hsu
Department of Business Administration, National Changhua U