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This text considers how multinationals transfer structures, policies and practices across national borders. It is contributed to by experts in the field of employment relations, and combines empirical material with a theoretical approach. The essays advance comparative institutionalist theory at both the macro-level and the micro-level.
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'...the volume is well wirtten and coherent. It raises some important questions and makes an important theoretical and empirical contribution.' - British Journal of Industrial Relations 46:1 March 08
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JACQUES BÉLANGER Professor, Département des relations industrielles, Université Laval, Canada
DAVID G. COLLINGS Member of Human Resource Management Research Group, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, and Visiting Research Fellow, Strathclyde International Business Unit, University of Strathclyde, UK
PAUL EDWARDS Professor of Industrial Relations, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
TONY ELGER Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Comparative Labour Studies, University of Warwick, UK
PATRICK GUNNIGLE Professor of Business Studies and Director of the Employment Relations Research Unit, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland
RICHARD HYMAN Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, UK
CHRISTEL LANE Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SPS), University of Cambridge, UK
GUGLIELMO MEARDI Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick, UK
GLENN MORGAN Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK
MICHAEL J. MORLEY Assistant Dean, Research and Senior Lecturer, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland
VALERIA PULIGNANO Professor of the Sociology of Labour, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
SIGRID QUACK Research Fellow, Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Berlin, Germany
JOCELYN PROBERT Lecturer in International Management and Organization, Birmingham Business School, University ofBirmingham, UK
CHRIS SMITH Professor of Organization Studies, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
SULLY TAYLOR Professor of International Management and Human Resource Management, and Director of the Master of International Management, Portland State University, USA
ANDRAS TÓTH Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices
Book Subtitle: Convergence and Diversity in the Global Economy
Editors: Anthony Ferner, Javier Quintanilla, Carlos Sánchez-Runde
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502307
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4771-0Published: 15 March 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52461-7Published: 15 March 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50230-7Published: 15 March 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 270
Topics: Human Resource Management