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... The transmission and adaptation of 'American' traits in US multinationals abroad Case... more ... The transmission and adaptation of 'American' traits in US multinationals abroad Case study evidence from the UK. Author : Ferner, Mike ; Corporate author : Leicester Business School (United Kingdom) ; Copyright : 2002 Language : English ; Pagination/Size : 41 p.; 30 cm; pbk. ...

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 20, 2006

This chapter considers the balance between central control and subsidiary autonomy in HR policy a... more This chapter considers the balance between central control and subsidiary autonomy in HR policy and practice. US multinationals have been shown to centralize control of international HR policy compared with multinationals of other nationalities. This chapter examines the organizational processes whereby particular patterns of centralization or autonomy are maintained, and how such patterns evolve over time. In explaining the mechanisms that drive changes in the centralization-autonomy balance, the chapter highlights the ability of actors at different levels of the multinational to influence policy choices through the deployment of a variety of power resources; the latter includes the leverage that local managers derive from their expert knowledge of the distinctive constraints and possibilities of their host business system. The factors that explain differences in the balance of centralization and autonomy between different multinationals are also explored.

SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, 2010

Oxford University Press eBooks, 2006

The functions of international HRM forums in multinational companies. Find what you want from DOR... more The functions of international HRM forums in multinational companies. Find what you want from DORA: All of DORA This Collection. Advanced Search. DORA. DORADe Montfort University Open Research Archive. You are here ...

Human Resource Management International Digest, Jun 1, 2006

This paper examines the policies towards unions and collective representation in US multinational... more This paper examines the policies towards unions and collective representation in US multinationals in the UK. It uses detailed case-study data to argue that the dominant 'ideological norms' of anti-unionism in the US business system shape, but do not determine, the behaviour of US multinational subsidiaries in the UK. Within the structural constraints determined by such factors as sector, subsidiary policy and behaviour towards unions are the outcome of the complex interaction of the contrasting 'macro-institutional' forces of home and host business systems, and how these are filtered through the perceptions and interests of actors at different levels of the multinational. The resulting 'micro-politics' generates a complex and evolving pattern of union relations and non-unionism in US subsidiaries.

B. Blackwell eBooks, 1994

The editors pay particular attention to developments in Eastern Europe as the former Easter bloc ... more The editors pay particular attention to developments in Eastern Europe as the former Easter bloc countries struggle to achieve the transition to market economies. The workplace, trade unions and the creation of national industrial relations institutions are examined specifically in ...

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This book addresses some of the major contemporary issues in comparative business and employment ... more This book addresses some of the major contemporary issues in comparative business and employment relations. At its core are the findings of a four-year international exploration of the management of employment relations in American multinational companies in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and Spain. Data from detailed case studies are used to illuminate the tensions between the forces of globalization and the continuing distinctiveness of national business systems. It looks at what is distinctively American about US multinationals, asking how the US business system’s particular features influence their management of human resources across national borders. It shows that the transfer of ‘Americanness’ is not a technical, top-down, managerial process, but a highly political and ‘negotiated’ one in which groups and individuals at different levels within the company try to influence the terms of transfer. The book uses a wealth of empirical material to explore the ways in which US multinatio...

Management International Review, Sep 11, 2010

This paper analyses the issue of variation between multinational companies in the extent to which... more This paper analyses the issue of variation between multinational companies in the extent to which they use their foreign operating units as the origin of employment practices that are subsequently transferred across the firm. It uses data from a nationally representative survey of MNCs in the UK and contrasts the relative influences of three sets of factors on diffusion. The results demonstrate that while the nationality of the parent firm and the way in which the multinational is configured have only modest effects on diffusion, the organisational conduits through which the diffusion of practices can occur are central to explaining variation between firms.

Relations industrielles, 2000

Tous droits réservés © Département des relations industrielles de l'Université Laval, 2000 Ce doc... more Tous droits réservés © Département des relations industrielles de l'Université Laval, 2000 Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l'

The issue of employment relations in the foreign operations of US-owned multinational corporation... more The issue of employment relations in the foreign operations of US-owned multinational corporations (MNCs) has attracted the attention of researchers for many years. The extensive literature has pointed to MNCs of American origin being more standardised, formalised and centralised in international policy making when compared with those of other nationalities (cf. Harzing 1999; Negandhi 1986; Young et al 1985; Yuen and Kee 1994). It has also indicated that US MNCs are particularly hostile to collective worker representation, and more likely to deploy HRM practices such as direct forms of employee involvement (cf. Dunning 1998; Enderwick 1985; for a review, see Edwards and Ferner 2002).