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American Multinationals in Europe: Managing Employment Relations across National Borders
Author(s): Phil Almond (Editor), Anthony Ferner
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: September 28, 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 366 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199274630
- ISBN-13: 9780199274635
Book Description
Some of the key questions in employment relations, comparative business, and globalization revolve around the extent to which businesses embody a national business system, and what happens when these employment models are exported to other national settings. By exploring the variety of ways in which US multinationals deal with these issues, and their reception, when operating in Europe, Phil Almond, Anthony Ferner, and their contributors examine the interaction between globalization and national ‘Varieties of Capitalism’. Using the findings of a four-year international exploration of the management of employment relations in US multinationals in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and Spain, this book examines what is distinctively ‘American’ about these companies, and how this notion is exported. The process is shown to be one that is not a technical managerial one, but one that is highly political, and ‘negotiated’, in which groups and individuals at different levels within the company try to
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Book Description
Illuminates the tensions between the forces of globalization and the continuing distinctiveness of national business systems
About the Author
Phil Almond is a Reader in Human Resource Management at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University. His published research interests include labour management in MNCs, comparative industrial and employment relations, wage determination systems, gender pay inequality, comparative methodology and the effects of corporate governance regimes on the management of labour. Anthony Ferner is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester. His research is concerned with employment relations in multinational companies, focusing in particular on the interaction between multinational behaviour and national employment relations systems.
