What is the role of multinational companies in the internationalization of markets and production? Debate has polarized around contrasting 'global' and 'national business system' perspectives. The article moves beyond this dichotomy, conceptualizing the international company as a distinctive...

In the face of continuing European market and economic integration, European industrial relations has become more fractured. This fracturing is occurring in two senses. First, the main institutional pillars of the industrial relations dimension of the European social model (or models) are...