TY - JOUR
T1 - U.S. multinationals and the control of subsidiary employment policies
AU - Ferner, Anthony
AU - Bélanger, Jacques
AU - Tregaskis, Olga
AU - Morley, Michael
AU - Quintanilla, Javier
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - The authors examine whether U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) are distinctive in the degree to which they exert direct control over policy on human resources and employment relations (HR/ER) in their foreign subsidiaries. The results confirm the distinctiveness of U.S. MNCs in their greater degree of direct control of policy, compared not only with non-U.S. firms but with every other major nationality or national grouping of MNCs: France, Germany, the Nordic group, the rest of Europe, and Japan. U.S. control of HR/ER policy is greater not just in the aggregate, but for most individual items. Finally, while levels of control over subsidiaries vary among host countries studied (Canada, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom) the greater U.S. orientation to control relative to non-U.S. MNCs holds regardless of host.
AB - The authors examine whether U.S. multinational companies (MNCs) are distinctive in the degree to which they exert direct control over policy on human resources and employment relations (HR/ER) in their foreign subsidiaries. The results confirm the distinctiveness of U.S. MNCs in their greater degree of direct control of policy, compared not only with non-U.S. firms but with every other major nationality or national grouping of MNCs: France, Germany, the Nordic group, the rest of Europe, and Japan. U.S. control of HR/ER policy is greater not just in the aggregate, but for most individual items. Finally, while levels of control over subsidiaries vary among host countries studied (Canada, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom) the greater U.S. orientation to control relative to non-U.S. MNCs holds regardless of host.
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U2 - 10.1177/001979391306600304
DO - 10.1177/001979391306600304
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84880224688
SN - 0019-7939
VL - 66
SP - 645
EP - 669
JO - Industrial and Labor Relations Review
JF - Industrial and Labor Relations Review
IS - 3
M1 - 4
ER -