Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices: Convergence and Diversity in the Global Economy

ISBN-13: 9781403947710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 270 str.

Anthony Ferner; Javier Quintanilla; Carlos Sanchez-Runde

Opis

This text considers how multinationals transfer structures, policies and practices across national borders. It is contributed to by experts in the field of employment relations, and combines empirical material with a theoretical approach. The essays advance comparative institutionalist theory at both the macro-level and the micro-level.

Recenzje

'...the volume is well wirtten and coherent. It raises some important questions and makes an important theoretical and empirical contribution.' - British Journal of Industrial Relations 46:1 March 08

Spis treści

Introduction: Multinationals and the Multilevel Politics of Cross-National Diffusion; A.Ferner, J.Quintanilla & C.Sánchez-Runde Towards a Political Economy Framework: TNCs as National and Global Players; J.Bélanger & P.Edwards Theorising the Role of the International Subsidiary: Transplants, Hybrids and Branch-Plants Revisited; T.Elger & C.Smith Accommodating Global Capitalism? State Policy and Industrial Relations in American MNCs in Ireland; P.Gunnigle & D.G.Collings & M.J.Morley Emerging Motivations for Global HRM Integration; S.Taylor Patterns of Integration in American Multinational Subsidiaries in Europe; V.Pulignano Who is Hybridizing What? Insights on MNCs' Employment Practices in Central Europe; G.Meardi & A.Tóth Globalization and Labour Market Segmentation: The Impact of Global Production Networks on Employment Patterns of German and UK Clothing Firms; C.Lane & J.Probert Global Networks or Global Firms? The Organizational Implications of the Internationalization of Law Firms; G.Morgan & S.Quack Structuring the Transnational Space: Can Europe Resist Multinational Capital?; R.Hyman

O autorze

JACQUES BÉLANGER Professor, Département des relations industrielles, Université Laval, Canada DAVID G. COLLINGS Member of Human Resource Management Research Group, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, and Visiting Research Fellow, Strathclyde International Business Unit, University of Strathclyde, UK PAUL EDWARDS Professor of Industrial Relations, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK TONY ELGER Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Comparative Labour Studies, University of Warwick, UK PATRICK GUNNIGLE Professor of Business Studies and Director of the Employment Relations Research Unit, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland RICHARD HYMAN Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, UK CHRISTEL LANE Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SPS), University of Cambridge, UK GUGLIELMO MEARDI Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick, UK GLENN MORGAN Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK MICHAEL J. MORLEY Assistant Dean, Research and Senior Lecturer, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland VALERIA PULIGNANO Professor of the Sociology of Labour, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium SIGRID QUACK Research Fellow, Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Berlin, Germany JOCELYN PROBERT Lecturer in International Management and Organization, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK CHRIS SMITH Professor of Organization Studies, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK SULLY TAYLOR Professor of International Management and Human Resource Management, and Director of the Master of International Management, Portland State University, USA ANDRAS TÓTH Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary