Dr Parth Patel is a Lecturer in International Management & HRM at Newcastle University Business School at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Patel has completed his PhD in Management from Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle in Australia and holds a Master of International Business (MIB) from the University of Wollongong in Australia. Prior to being in academic, Dr. Patel worked as a Recruitment Consultant with Chandler Macleod, one of Australia’s premier recruitment and HR consulting organisation. Dr. Patel’s research interests are in the areas of control practices of MNCs, global staffing and expatriation, HQ-subsidiary relationships, transfer of HRM practices in MNEs, internationalisation of emerging market MNEs and institutional influences on MNEs. Dr Patel is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM) USA, the British Academy of Management (BAM) and the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM). He is also a member of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI) and serves as an editorial board member of the Review of International Business & Strategy journal (Emerald). Dr Patel is a regular peer reviewer for the Journal of International Management, International Business Review, Thunderbird International Business Review, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Knowledge Management Research & Practice and the International Journal of Emerging Markets.