In diesem Beitrag wird ein Ansatz zur Erforschung der Personalpolitik in multinationalen Unternehmen vorgestellt, der sich inzwischen zu einem eigenständigen Forschungsstrang in der internationalen Personalforschung entwickelt hat. Dieser Ansatz hat im deutschsprachigen Raum bisher nur wenig...

In diesem Beitrag wird ein Ansatz zur Erforschung der Personalpolitik in multinationalen Unternehmen vorgestellt, der sich inzwischen zu einem eigenständigen Forschungsstrang in der internationalen Personalforschung entwickelt hat. Dieser Ansatz hat im deutschsprachigen Raum bisher nur wenig...

The importance of multinational companies (MNCs) in the UK economy is not inquestion. One way in which this is evident is that Britain is a major recipient offoreign direct investment (FDI) by MNCs, accounting for 8.7% of the inward stockof global FDI. In addition, large numbers of...

While there is a growing literature concerned with multinational companies from emerging markets (EMNCs), it does not contain a robust conception of how institutions shape human resource (HR) practices in such firms. We contribute to filling this gap through developing a framework of how...

Books reviewed in this article: Paul Osterman, Thomas A. Kochan, Richard Locke and Michael J. Piore, Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labour Market Brian Towers and William Brown (eds.), Employment Relations in Great Britain: 25 years of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration...

This paper addresses the issue of 'reverse diffusion' of employment practices in multinational companies, which is defined as the transfer of practices from foreign subsidiaries to operations in the country of origin. It adds to the literature by examining the influence of the parent business...

This article argues that the institutional "home" and "host" country effects on employment policy and practice in multinational corporations (MNCs) need to be analyzed within a framework which takes more account both of the multiple levels of embeddedness experienced by the MNC, and processes of...