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Similar, but still different: how US multinational companies in G ermany and S witzerland use host‐country training and skill practices
Author(s) -
Kluike Marlies,
Pull Kerstin
Publication year - 2013
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/irj.12031
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , host (biology) , vocational education , training (meteorology) , business , subsidiary , test (biology) , marketing , industrial organization , economics , economic growth , finance , geography , ecology , paleontology , meteorology , biology
We examine in how far US subsidiaries in G ermany and S witzerland display characteristics of a strategic fit with their host country and mostly find support for our predictions. Subsequently we determine each subsidiary's host‐country fit and test for within country differences in using local training and skill practices. We find the extent of continuing vocational education and training and the extent to which training on the job is important to vary with host‐country fit in G ermany, while in S witzerland, as predicted, we find no such relations.