Continuity and change in national HRM – an overview and future research agenda

Context and contextual changes over time are important in the study of organisations, their management generally and human resource management (HRM) in particular. Prominent theoretical schools such as various forms of institutionalist and contingency thinking as well as calls for considering context in organisational behaviour testify to this importance. In a similar manner, the issue of time is clearly acknowledged and, recently, has received some additional attention. In editing this special issue (SI), we emphasise that context and time are not only each separately important but also intersect and must be considered simultaneously.

This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in The International Journal of Human Resource Management. Gooderham, P. N., Mayrhofer, W., Sinha, P. N., Zheng, C. S., & Brewster, C. (2025). Continuity and change in national HRM – an overview and future research agenda. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2025.2548041 . It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

This is the Introduction to the Special Issue on Continuity and Change in National HRM
Guest Editors: Chris Brewster, Paul N. Gooderham, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Paresha N. Sinha & Connie S. Zheng