The authors use international business strategy and regional development literature to inform a set of propositions about the links between direct employment by foreign-owned subsidiaries in the manufacturing sector and the development of embeddedness and autonomy in these subsidiaries. A...

In light of current changes in the German industrial relations' landscape and the wider and deeper integration of German multinationals into the world economy, this study investigates the relative importance of the country-of-origin effect in employee relations of German affiliates in an...

In der Globalisierungs- und Standortdebatte wird zunehmend postuliert, dass es nationale Sonderwege in Wahl von Wirtschafts- und Beschäftigungspolitik und der Institutionalisierung der Arbeits- und Tarifsysteme nicht mehr gebe - die Mobilität insbesondere des Kapitals führe letztendlich zur...

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 uses network approaches to subsidiary theory to investigate the performance impacts of interactions among the factors of autonomy, intra-organizational network relationships, and inter-organizational network relationships. The paper offers an analysis of both direct and indirect...