Employee Relations in Foreign-Owned Subsidiaries
German Multinational Companies in the UK
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Heinz-Josef Tüselmann
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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and the Adaptive Efficiency of the German Institutional System
There have been calls to incorporate comparative institutional li terature, such as the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) (Hall and Soskice, 2001) and National Business Systems (NBS) (Whitley, 1999), into research...
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The Persistence of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from German Manufacturing Industries
The longitudinal properties of outward FDI and multinational company (MNC) strategies and activities have been extensively investigated by international business scholars (Buckley et al., 2007; Butler and Domi...
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Cross-Border Transfer of Employment Relations Approaches: Country-of-Origin Effects and the Level and Type of Industry Internationalization
The cross-border transfer of business and management practices within multinational companies (MNC) forms an important strand of research in international business. The way MNCs are shaped by their institution...
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Conclusions and Policy Implications
The study reported in this book is the first of its kind to assess the impact of both labour relations practices and labour relations approaches on the performance of German subsidiaries. The study incorporate...
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Overview of Employee Relations in Germany and the United Kingdom
At the macro-economic level, the importance of employee relations (ER) in contributing to countries’ economic success has recently been highlighted by a number of authors (see, for instance, Hall and Soskice, ...
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Institutional Environments and Employee Relations in German Firms
Heightened globalization pressures, characterized, inter alia, by rising capital mobility and increasing international competition have led to a growing interest in the institutional environments in which firms o...
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Employee Relations in Multinational Companies
As outlined in Chapter 2, employee relations (ER) in different national economies are often portrayed as being distinct. This raises a number of issues when a company from one country establishes a subsidiary ...
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Voice in Employee Relations Systems
A systematic and comprehensive assessment of the performance impact of alternative ER patterns requires an integrated framework that draws together the discrete strands of the relevant literatures. There has b...
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The Characteristics of Voice Mechanisms in German Subsidiaries
The results of the regression estimates for the pooled sample of German and US subsidiaries are shown in Table 7.1. The results are presented in summative form. For ease of presentation, this summary table of ...
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Firm Performance and Employee Relations
As outlined in the introductory chapter, the link between employee relations (ER) and performance in overseas subsidiaries of MNCs is more complex than that for indigenous firms. The preceding chapter has show...
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Data and Methodology
The study is based on a postal survey of managing directors of German-owned subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. The survey was conducted in 2004, and the unit of analysis is the establishment. The study design...
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Voice Mechanisms and Performance
This chapter presents the performance associations connected with the observed ER patterns in German subsidiaries that were discussed in the preceding chapter. It was noted that these patterns emerge from the ...
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Cautious International Entrepreneurs: The Case of the Mittelstand
This paper investigates the international entrepreneurial behaviour of Mittelstand firms (German small and medium sized enterprises). Analysis of a survey of the international marketing strategies of Mittelsta...
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Employee Relations in German Multinationals in an Anglo-Saxon Setting and the New German Model of Labour Relations
Against the background of increased globalization pressures, the growing internationalization of German multinational companies (MNCs) and the current problems and erosion of the traditional German industrial ...
