M. L. Lengnick-Hall C. A. Lengnick-Hall and C. M. Rigsbee (2013) Strategic Human Resource Management and Supply Chain Orientation Human Resource Management 23(4): 366-377. A very useful paper that links strategic HRM to supply chain structures; the paper moves beyond the single firm to consider multiple intra- and inter-organizational links. The paper is of central importance to understanding IHRM within global factory systems.

E.W.K. Tsang (1999) The Knowledge Transfer and Learning Aspects of International HRM: An Empirical Study of Singapore MNCs  International Business Review 8(5-6): 591-609. - an interesting article that considers both the theoretical and empirical aspects of knowledge transfer and learning within IHRM. Finds evidence of ethnocentric practices when Singaporean MNEs invest in China.

J.S. Black and H.B. Gregersen (1999) The Right Way to Manage Expats Harvard Business Review 77(2): 52-59. A practical and very readable discussion of the key elements of the expatriation and repatriation process, with insights from a very wide range of empirical studies.