Similar, but still different: how US multinational companies in Germany and Switzerland use host-country training and skill practices
Kluike, Marlies ; Pull, Kerstin
2013
44
5-6
November
495-513
continuing vocational training ; multinational enterprise ; on the job training
Education and training
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irj.12031
English
Bibliogr.
"We examine in how far US subsidiaries in Germany and Switzerland display characteristics of a strategic fit with their host country and mostly find support for our predictions. Subsequently we determine each subsidiary's host-country fit and test for within country differences in using local training and skill practices. We find the extent of continuing vocational education and training and the extent to which training on the job is important to vary with host-country fit in Germany, while in Switzerland, as predicted, we find no such relations."
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