This is the 100th issue of the IMB Working Papers. It contains three short papers on the series itself. The first paper takes stock of the history, content and relevance of the IMB Working Paper Series. It analyses the first 100 issues of the series in detail (Dörrenbächer in this volume, pp....

Multi-national corporations (MNCs) are constantly undergoing a process of standardisation and reorganisation (S&R), which is fuelled by the rapid development of information technology (IT). These developments require an in-depth and systematic inquiry as they have serious ramifications for...

This paper investigates the relationship between the use of parent company nationals (PCN) and home country nationals (HCN) and various attributes in foreign owned subsidiaries in Denmark, Germany and the UK. The study explores whether the existing literature on international staffing adequately...

This paper examines the European low-cost airline industry by analysing how the rise of low-cost carriers (LCCs) has influenced the relationship between airlines and airports. Publicly funded infrastructure is a necessary precondition for any business, and utilization charges are an important...

With the unchanging high failure rate of M&As, recent research is putting an increasing emphasis on Cultural Due Diligence (CDD) and socio-cultural Post-Merger Integration (PMI) Management. Nevertheless, the state of the art on CDD is still rare, leading to the fact that its actual value for a...

Etwa zehn Prozent der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten in Deutschland arbeiten in Tochterunternehmen ausländischer Konzerne. Anhand von 21 systematisch ausgewählten Fallstudien erarbeitet diese Studie ein differenziertes Bild der Mitbestimmungskultur in diesen Unternehmen. Das...

The study examines the relationship between performance and patterns of autonomy and the network relationships used by the foreign subsidiaries of transnational corporations (TNCs) in world cities compared to those subsidiaries outside these locations. This is done by exploring if these patterns...

Wie sieht es mit der Mitbestimmung in ausländischen Unternehmen in Deutschland aus? Auf der Basis einer repräsentativen Umfrage sowohl des lokalen Managements als auch der Betriebsräte zeigt diese Studie, dass die Betriebsräte die Situation zwar deutlich kritischer sehen, grundsätzlich aber...