This paper reviews empirical international human resource management (IHRM) journal
articles on foreign- and indigenous-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in
Australia. More specifically, we explore the extent to which papers using Australian data in
this area are being published in 53 of the world’s leading academic journals and identify the
topics that have been researched. We then propose a number of research areas, of
Australian and international interest, that researchers could pursue in the future. Our
findings point to a picture of limited publications in the leading international journals.
There is also support for recent arguments that substantial capacity exists for a greater
theoretical contribution by researchers in the IHRM field.