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Accommodating Global Capitalism? State Policy and Industrial Relations in American MNCs in Ireland

In: Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices

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  • Patrick Gunnigle
  • David G. Collings
  • Michael J. Morley

Abstract

The impact of multinational corporations (MNCs) on host country industrial relations (IR) has long been a source of academic debate (cf. Bomers and Peterson, 1977). In evaluating the impact of MNCs, Gennard and Steuer (1971: 144) argued that it is ‘the foreignness of subsidiary behaviour which matters’, while, more recently, Ferner and Quintanilla (2002: 245) suggest that their key influence is that they ‘act as agents of change by introducing innovations into their subsidiaries and thence into the host business system’. It is this latter influence with which this chapter is concerned.

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  • Patrick Gunnigle & David G. Collings & Michael J. Morley, 2006. "Accommodating Global Capitalism? State Policy and Industrial Relations in American MNCs in Ireland," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anthony Ferner & Javier Quintanilla & Carlos Sánchez-Runde (ed.), Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices, chapter 4, pages 86-108, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50230-7_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230502307_4
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    1. Collings, David G. & Morley, Michael J. & Gunnigle, Patrick, 2008. "Composing the top management team in the international subsidiary: Qualitative evidence on international staffing in U.S. MNCs in the Republic of Ireland," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 43(2), pages 197-212, March.
    2. Anthony Ferner & Jacques Bélanger & Olga Tregaskis & Michael Morley & Javier Quintanilla, 2013. "U.S. Multinationals and the Control of Subsidiary Employment Policies," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 66(3), pages 645-669, May.

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