Documents Adam, Duncan 4 results

"Drawing on a unique international data set of multinational companies' employment practices, the authors use logistic regression analysis to address variation in the existence of and management practice toward transnational social dialogue through European Works Councils (EWCs). Adopting a contingency perspective, they find that the degree of internationalization of companies' operations and management organization, international HR structure, and the presence of workforce organization exercise strong influence on whether multinationals covered by the relevant European Union legislation have established an EWC. So too do multinationals' country of origin, sector, and size by employment. While concern has focused on the significant proportion of EWCs in which management's information and consultation practice seems to be minimalist, the authors find that this is less likely to be the case where the HR function is internationalized"

"Trade unions have been charged with neglecting labour market ‘outsiders', while alternative actors have emerged to represent these. In response, unions have stepped up their claim to be representative of all workers, without distinction. We review the theoretical and policy debates on this issue, and argue that representation as such has been under-theorized. We draw on Saward's concept of ‘representative claims' to analyse the different grounds for competing assertions of representativeness. We identify four main forms of claims, and illustrate these with empirical examples. We conclude that these different claims are mutually reinforcing in stimulating attention to the outsiders, and in their interaction with institutional settings, they have a performative effect in defining new social actors."

"This paper contributes to the debate about converge-divergence through comparing Japanese and us multinational corporations (mncs) on their deployment of human resource management (Hrm) and employment relations (er) practices across four countries. the context is the shift from the dominance of the Japanese economy in the 1980s and early 1990s towards the renewed dominance of the us economy in more recent decades. We draw on data from representative, parallel surveys of mncs operating in canada, the uK, spain and australia to test a set of hypotheses examining similarities and differences between subsidiaries of Japanese and us mncs in relation to management control across borders, remuneration, representation and worker involvement. the findings demonstrate that, despite the pressures of globalization, and the partial movement away from traditional Japanese management practices in Japan, there are clear country of origin effects for Japanese and american mncs. "