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Multinationals, international integration and employment practice in domestic plants
Author(s) -
Edwards Tony
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2338.00151
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , phenomenon , business , diffusion , international trade , labour economics , economics , finance , physics , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
The article explores the diffusion of employment practices from the foreign operations of multinational companies to those in the home country. Specifically, it uses data from ten mini‐case studies to examine the type of multinational in which this phenomenon, termed ‘reverse diffusion’, is most likely to be found.