Abstract Comparative human resource management (HRM) has an established pedigree in the management and organization literature. However, the generation of novel contextual understanding to enhance theory building, deepen our appreciation of embedded management practices in more diverse territories, and open up new lines of enquiry was, and remains, challenging social science research. Increasingly, international academic research networks that bring together scholars from different countries in the co-production of knowledge represent a key approach to rising to this challenge. In this issue, we document aspects of the development of one such network, namely the Cranet Network on International Human Resource Management, and we provide an exposition of a series of recent articles from the network. The contributions highlight, inter alia, the limits to convergence in HRM as a result of contextual determinism, the role of institutional actors, markets and work regulation in accounting for variations in people management practices, the contextual specificities and dynamics at play in transition economies, along with key methodological challenges that arise when seeking to build cumulative comparative knowledge via network collaborations of this nature.

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国际研究合作的剖析：在人力资源管理中积累累积的比较知识

摘要比较型人力资源管理（HRM）在管理和组织文献方面有一定的血统。但是，产生新的上下文理解以增强理论构建，加深我们对更多领域的嵌入式管理实践的认识以及开辟新的探究路线一直是，而且仍然是对社会科学研究的挑战。越来越多的国际学术研究网络汇集了来自不同国家的学者共同制作知识，这是应对这一挑战的关键方法。在本期中，我们记录了一个这样的网络（即国际人力资源管理的Cranet网络）的发展方面，并提供了该网络最近发表的一系列文章的说明。捐款除其他外突出了：