ABSTRACT
This volume has explored the degree of change and continuity in Asian human resource management (HRM). The specific aim was to explore changes since 1997. In this period many Asian countries experienced the direct effects of the Asian financial crisis. There was also a substantial economic downturn in the US, which impacted on Asian exports, low levels of growth, as in Japan, dramatic changes in direction and increases in foreign direct investment (FDI), particularly in China, and a range of social and political changes. As a consequence, much of what has been written about Asia in that period is outmoded and may well be irrelevant.
