Summaries: the best textbooks for international organisations and international relations summarized

Summary of: Ewards, T. & Kuruvilla, S. (2005). International HRM: National Business Systems, Organizational Politics, and the International Division of Labour in MNCs. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(1)

INTERNATIONAL HRM

Strategic human resource management: The RBV suggests that the firm’s human resources can be used to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. But failures by the HRM policy can turn human resources into a major source of disadvantage. Considering transaction cost economics, the decision to add one or more factory workers on the assembly line might be made using the logic of transaction cost analysis. But maybe not when we talk about skilled workers and probably even less again when we’re talking about workers core to our firm.

Human resource management (HRM) is a field of theory and practice that deals with decisions related to policies and practices, that together help to shape the relationship between the

Summary of 'The Economics of European Integration' by Baldwin and Wyplosz. Chapters of the summary do not correspond to chapters in the book. Chapter 1 to 6 corresponds to chapter 13 to 18 of the book. At the bottom an attachment with tables and figures is linked as pdf

Chapter 1: Essential Macroeconomic Tools

Preliminaries: output and prices

It is the most commonly used measure of economic activity; Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It is often called output, as