Agency work is one of the most rapidly growing forms of employment in leading economies over the past two decades, signifying a global shift towards non-standard flexible employment modes. The rapid growth of agency work has become one of the most notable global employment trends and is set to...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the strategic responses of multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries in China toward a unique institutional characteristic – the structural discrimination against rural migrant workers. Design/methodology/approach Based on surveys of 181 firms...

In Maidstone and Lenham in Kent, and Bitton near Bristol, England, is the operation of Marley Automotive Components Ltd. In the late 1980s it entered into an international joint venture (IJV) with the US company, Davidson Instrument Panel -- Textron of Portland, New Hampshire. An earlier article...

Vorwort zur 1. Auflage Dieses Buch hat eine lange Vorgeschichte. Sie beginnt damit, daß Peter Dowling aus Melbourne und Randall Schuleraus New York vor neun Jahren gemeinsam das erste Lehrbuch für das Internationale Personalmanagement schrieben. Als Folge der weltweit engeren wirtschaftlichen...