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Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices

Convergence and Diversity in the Global Economy

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Editors:
  1. Anthony Ferner

    1. Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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  2. Javier Quintanilla

    1. IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain

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  3. Carlos Sánchez-Runde

    1. IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Multinationals and the Multilevel Politics of Cross-National Diffusion

    • Anthony Ferner, Javier Quintanilla, Carlos Sánchez-Runde
    Pages 1-23

  3. Towards a Political Economy Framework: TNCs as National and Global Players

    • Jacques Bélanger, Paul Edwards
    Pages 24-52

  4. Theorizing the Role of the International Subsidiary: Transplants, Hybrids and Branch-Plants Revisited

    • Tony Elger, Chris Smith
    Pages 53-85

  5. Accommodating Global Capitalism? State Policy and Industrial Relations in American MNCs in Ireland

    • Patrick Gunnigle, David G. Collings, Michael J. Morley
    Pages 86-108

  6. Emerging Motivations for Global HRM Integration

    • Sully Taylor
    Pages 109-130

  7. Patterns of Integration in American Multinational Subsidiaries in Europe

    • Valeria Pulignano
    Pages 131-154

  8. Who is Hybridizing What? Insights on MNCs’ Employment Practices in Central Europe

    • Guglielmo Meardi, András Tóth
    Pages 155-183

  9. Globalization and Labour Market Segmentation: The Impact of Global Production Networks on Employment Patterns of German and UK Clothing Firms

    • Christel Lane, Jocelyn Probert
    Pages 184-212

  10. Global Networks or Global Firms? The Organizational Implications of the Internationalization of Law Firms

    • Glenn Morgan, Sigrid Quack
    Pages 213-238

  11. Structuring the Transnational Space: Can Europe Resist Multinational Capital?

    • Richard Hyman
    Pages 239-255

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 256-270
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About this book

This text considers how multinationals transfer structures, policies and practices across national borders. It is contributed to by experts in the field of employment relations, and combines empirical material with a theoretical approach. The essays advance comparative institutionalist theory at both the macro-level and the micro-level.

Reviews

'...the volume is well wirtten and coherent. It raises some important questions and makes an important theoretical and empirical contribution.' - British Journal of Industrial Relations 46:1 March 08

Editors and Affiliations

  • Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Anthony Ferner

  • IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain

    Javier Quintanilla, Carlos Sánchez-Runde

About the editors

JACQUES BÉLANGER Professor, Département des relations industrielles, Université Laval, Canada DAVID G. COLLINGS Member of Human Resource Management Research Group, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, and Visiting Research Fellow, Strathclyde International Business Unit, University of Strathclyde, UK PAUL EDWARDS Professor of Industrial Relations, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK TONY ELGER Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Comparative Labour Studies, University of Warwick, UK PATRICK GUNNIGLE Professor of Business Studies and Director of the Employment Relations Research Unit, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland RICHARD HYMAN Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, UK CHRISTEL LANE Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SPS), University of Cambridge, UK GUGLIELMO MEARDI Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick, UK GLENN MORGAN Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK MICHAEL J. MORLEY Assistant Dean, Research and Senior Lecturer, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland VALERIA PULIGNANO Professor of the Sociology of Labour, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium SIGRID QUACK Research Fellow, Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Berlin, Germany JOCELYN PROBERT Lecturer in International Management and Organization, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK CHRIS SMITH Professor of Organization Studies, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK SULLY TAYLOR Professor of International Management and Human Resource Management, and Director of the Master of International Management, Portland State University, USA ANDRAS TÓTH Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices

  • Book Subtitle: Convergence and Diversity in the Global Economy

  • Editors: Anthony Ferner, Javier Quintanilla, Carlos Sánchez-Runde

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502307

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4771-0Published: 15 March 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52461-7Published: 15 March 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50230-7Published: 15 March 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 270

  • Topics: Human Resource Management

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