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Multinationals' heaven? Uncovering and understanding worker responses to multinational companies in post-communist Central Europe
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Meardi, Guglielmo (2006) Multinationals' heaven? Uncovering and understanding worker responses to multinational companies in post-communist Central Europe. In: 19th Annual Conference of the Employment Research Unit, Cardiff Univ, Cardiff Business Sch, Cardiff, Wales, Sep. 8-9, 2004. Published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol.17 (No.8). pp. 1366-1378.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585190600804754
Abstract
The article critically discusses the view that the new EU member states, due to their weakly organized industrial relations, provide a permissive environment allowing multinational companies to unilaterally implement their human resource management strategies. After describing the labour cost motivations of foreign investors and the weakness of organized labour in the region, the paper presents empirical evidence from case studies in the automotive sector in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia. All case studies confirm the existence of nationally specific, mostly informal forms of employee resistance limiting employer freedom, as well as some appearance of cross-border forms of resistance. Conclusions are drawn with regard to current debates on social dumping and Europeanization of industrial relations, stressing the value of bottom-up, shopfloor-sensitive approaches.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Human Resource Management |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISSN: | 0958-5192 |
| Date: | August 2006 |
| Volume: | Vol.17 |
| Number: | No.8 |
| Number of Pages: | 13 |
| Page Range: | pp. 1366-1378 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/09585190600804754 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper |
| Title of Event: | 19th Annual Conference of the Employment Research Unit |
| Type of Event: | Conference |
| Location of Event: | Cardiff Univ, Cardiff Business Sch, Cardiff, Wales |
| Date(s) of Event: | Sep. 8-9, 2004 |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/33150 |
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