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The industrial relations practices of multi‐plant foreign owned firms
Author(s) -
Purcell John,
Marginson Paul,
Edwards Paul,
Sisson Keith
Publication year - 1987
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/j.1468-2338.1987.tb00894.x
Subject(s) - business , collective bargaining , industrial relations , human resource management , industrial organization , human resources , resource (disambiguation) , economic system , market economy , economics , management , computer science , computer network
Data from a survey of 143 enterprises indicates that foreign‐owned firms are likely to devote more resources to, and be more advanced in, modern human resource management techniques while being similar in the extent to which unions are recognised for collective bargaining.