One Company, Diverse Workplaces
The Social Construction of Employment Practices in Western and Eastern Europe
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Workers’ Participation in Czechia and Slovakia
This chapter reviews the formation, regulation, and practice of worker participation in Czechia and Slovakia since state socialism before 1989, throughout economic transformations in the 1990s and EU accession...
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Building a Local Corporate Presence: Social Interaction between the Multinational and Local Societies
Company values, interests and social interaction within Electra create preconditions for a decentralized construction of employment practices across the subsidiaries. The construction process is closely relate...
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Social Foundations of Trade Union Influence: Cross-Border Interaction of Unions and Employee Representatives
I have argued in the previous chapter that social interaction between the MNC and trade unions in the host countries and subsidiaries plays a key role in the process of constructing employment practices. This ...
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Multinationals, Employment Practices and Institutional Change from below
The standard approach in the comparative institutionalist literature on MNCs is to focus on the outcomes of MNC embedding in host countries, and thereby inquire whether MNCs diffuse best organizational practices ...
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Constructing Employment Practices in Multinationals: A Framework for Analysis
Because of an ability to draw on multiple resources and operate simultaneously in differing conditions, MNCs represent the organizational face of internationalization and transmission of employment practices a...
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Channelling Corporate Values and Interests: Social Interaction within the Multinational
Every firm is characterized by particular corporate values and interests, which are diffused throughout multiple organizational levels and aim at securing compliance of all parts of the organization. These cor...
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From Bargaining to Dancing: Social Interaction between the Multinational, Local Workers and Trade Unions
The influence of social interaction between the MNC and local actors in constructing employment practices is most obvious in the MNC’s interaction with three groups of local actors: the subsidiary workforce, ...
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Accounting for Diversity: The Social Construction of Employment Practices
As shown in Chapters 4 to 6, various interaction forms apply to various interaction channels between the MNC and local actors. Some interaction channels are of direct relevance for the construction of subsidia...
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Introduction: Multinationals and Employment Practices across Europe
The 1990s were a turbulent period for most people in former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Political and economic changes after the fall of state socialism had wide-ranging consequenc...
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One Multinational, Four Host Countries: On Diversity in Subsidiary Employment Practices
In the book’s introduction, I have briefly outlined the existing empirical evidence of MNCs’ employment practices. Despite offering precious empirical evidence from Western Europe and from CEE, the literature ...
