This article studies the restructuring process following a cross-border merger between two pharmaceutical companies. Mergers and takeovers make a favourable scenario for researching the capacity that multinationals have for disseminating their policies and practices beyond the frontiers of their...

This article examines the restructuring process following a cross-border merger in the pharmaceuticals sector. We show how national industrial relations systems account for some aspects of cross-national differences in the process and outcomes of restructuring. However, we also argue that...

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