This paper explores, based on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, configurations of key human resource management practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany,...

Because the extent to which multinational companies (MNCs) benefit from foreign subsidiaries depends on how effectively MNCs manage their foreign subsidiaries' workforce, the international management literature has long focused on how MNCs transfer Human Resource Management (HRM) practices....

Two so far unexplored issues regarding host-country effects are addressed that contribute to a better understanding of findings for hybrid host-market economies such as Switzerland. Host-country effects are differentiated by practices belonging rather to IR and education & training as per the...

In this paper it is tested in how far US-subsidiaries’ employment relations comparative advantage - subsidiaries’ host-country fit - coincides with a different use of host-country employment relations - staff adjustment practices. Characteristics of subsidiaries that should lead to the...