One Company, Diverse Workplaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Multinationals and Employment Practices across Europe

   • Marta Kahancová

   Pages 1-17

3. Constructing Employment Practices in Multinationals: A Framework for Analysis

   • Marta Kahancová

   Pages 18-44

4. One Multinational, Four Host Countries: On Diversity in Subsidiary Employment Practices

   • Marta Kahancová

   Pages 45-75

5. Channelling Corporate Values and Interests: Social Interaction within the Multinational

   • Marta Kahancová

   Pages 76-97

6. Building a Local Corporate Presence: Social Interaction between the Multinational and Local Societies

   • Marta Kahancová

   Pages 98-117

7. From Bargaining to Dancing: Social Interaction between the Multinational, Local Workers and Trade Unions

   • Marta Kahancová

   Pages 118-147

8. Social Foundations of Trade Union Influence: Cross-Border Interaction of Unions and Employee Representatives

   • Marta Kahancová

   Pages 148-174

9. Accounting for Diversity: The Social Construction of Employment Practices

   • Marta Kahancová

   Pages 175-196

10. Multinationals, Employment Practices and Institutional Change from below

    • Marta Kahancová

    Pages 197-213

11. Back Matter

    Pages 214-263

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The book offers an inquiry into the construction of employment practices in a multinational company across Western and Eastern Europe. In the complex corporate and host-country influences, social interaction between the firm and local actors is presented as the underlying social mechanism through which work practices are constructed.

• accounting
• bargaining
• Eastern Europe
• employment
• foundation
• interaction
• science and technology
• trade
• unions

• Central European Labour Studies Institute, Hungary

  Marta Kahancová

• Department of Political Science, Central European University, Hungary

  Marta Kahancová

• Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation & Change, University of Leeds, UK

  Marta Kahancová

MARTA KAHANCOVÁ is a research fellow at the Central European Labour Studies institute in Bratislava, Slovakia and a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Her research interests include multinational firms, industrial relations, civil society and work-related migration. In 2006 and 2008, Marta was a doctoral and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. She earned her PhD. in Social Sciences in 2007 at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her dissertation received the 2009 award of the Dutch Sociological Association.

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