This paper uses data from a 2002 survey of project managers in a large, U.S.-based financial services institution to compare how contractors and regular employees were assigned to work within an information technology department. The author uses these data to test standard core-periphery...

The authors use comparable data on employment practices in multinationals located in four countries - Canada, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom - to examine the question, How can we explain variation among national subsidiaries of MNCs in the extent and form of control on employment...