Etwa zehn Prozent der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten in Deutschland arbeiten in Tochterunternehmen ausländischer Konzerne. Anhand von 21 systematisch ausgewählten Fallstudien erarbeitet diese Studie ein differenziertes Bild der Mitbestimmungskultur in diesen Unternehmen. Das...

Purpose: This paper addresses the so far hardly understood contemporary restructuring trends in European Multinational corporations (MNCs), their rationales and their labour-related implications. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a systematic evaluation of academic and...

Purpose: This viewpoint takes up the Covid-19 pandemic as a trigger for a research agenda around societally engaged international business (IB) research. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is organized as a viewpoint. First, it provides an overview of Covid-19 research in business and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical framework to categorize the quality of industrial relations in foreign affiliates. Using the case of foreign affiliates in Germany, this paper further explores what factors shape the quality of industrial relations in foreign...

This paper discusses various ways of measuring corporate internationalisation. The concepts considered here became of crucial importance in the recent debate on globalisation, since many scholars link globalisation to a quantitative increase in the international activities of firms.(...)

Within the Uruguay Round, the “Group of Negotiations on Trade in Services” deals with the formation of a multilateral framework of principles and rules for the “progressive liberalization” of trade in services. Telecommunications is of high priority in the framework preparations, both as...

Foreign direct investment has grown rapidly in recent decades and, along with it, foreign research and development activities. The following article analyzes the reasons for the internationalization of R&D, examines its patterns in relationship to Germany and discusses the implications for...

In June the EU Council of Ministers (excluding the UK) took up a common position concerning European Works Councils. The establishment of such Councils would grant certain information and consultation rights to the workers of multinational companies. The following paper looks at the importance...

Wie sieht es mit der Mitbestimmung in ausländischen Unternehmen in Deutschland aus? Auf der Basis einer repräsentativen Umfrage sowohl des lokalen Managements als auch der Betriebsräte zeigt diese Studie, dass die Betriebsräte die Situation zwar deutlich kritischer sehen, grundsätzlich aber...