“…Conner and Ulrich, 1996;Storey, 1992;Ulrich, 1997;Ulrich and Brockback, 2005). There is, however, a dearth of empirical studies into how HR professionals' enact their roles (O'Brien and Linehan, 2014;Pritchard, 2010;Stiles and Trevor, 2006), in particular in international settings (Welch and Welch, 2012) and in relation to specific issues, such as CCT. In light of empirical evidence that ‗personnel managers will have different roles in relation to different issues with which they are concerned ' (Procter andCurrie, 1999: 1078), a more fine grained exploration of specific HR roles in international settings is called for.…”