A cost-minimization approach to the international transfer of HRM/IR practices: Anglo-Saxon multinationals in the Federal Republic of Germany

Article Abstract:

The comparison between the human resource management and industrial relations (HRM/IR) practices of US and British multinationals operating in Germany is studied. The rationalistic cost-minimization approach was found well suited for explaining the patterns of host- and home-country effects in regard to HRM/IR practices of multinational enterprises.

Germany, Cost control, Cost reduction

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Patterns of corporate influence in the host country: a study of ABB in Canada

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The linkage and patterns of influence between multinational corporations (MNCs) and their subsidiaries in foreign countries are studied. It was found that through a process involving the exercise of politics and power, the global corporation channels and mediates the impact of external market forces on internal organizational actors.

Case studies, Subsidiary corporations, Subsidiaries, Organizational structure

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R&D personnel and human resource management in multinational companies: between homogenization and differentiation

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The linkage between the globalization of R&D and its impact on human resource management (HRM) in multinational companies are studied. The results revealed contradictory trends, which show that, in spite of the rhetoric, the tension between divergence and convergence of HRM tools and practices remains strong.

Globalization

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