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PART 4 Industrial Relations: A Comparative and International Perspective ...

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15 The Transfer of Employment Practices Across Borders in Multinational Companies Tony Edwards 1 Introduction 389 2 Why transfer ...

another. One element of this is the transfer of employment practices across borders. This capacity can be seen as a potential so ...

of employment, addressing in particular whether they contribute to the convergence of these systems. 2 WHY TRANSFER PRACTICES? T ...

concerning the management of employment relations in their foreign subsidiaries as essentially a trade-off between the competiti ...

with them when they go abroad. In other words, their corporate culture is informed by the national culture in the original count ...

A key contribution of this approach is to recognise that the motivation that organisational actors have to engage in the transfe ...

‘not one of these can be dubbed truly global, footloose or borderless’. Analysis of data from the UN’s World Investment Report ( ...

made strenuous attempts to transfer the practices associated with ‘lean production’, such as teamworking, functional flexibility ...

impact on the transfer of employment practices, the logic of the ‘dominance effects’ argument is that such transfer is not solel ...

either of the firm as a whole in relation to other firms, or of the unit in which they work in relation to other units within th ...

address the influence of the Swedish business system over employment relations in the firm and the role of the transfer of pract ...

years ago all employees were given the right to subscribe to a convertible debenture scheme, something that about 40% of staff w ...

many markets, making it easier for firms to realise synergistic linkages between their subsidiaries. Coupled with these changes ...