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The Americanisation of the European business system?
Author(s) -
Clark Ian,
Almond Philip,
Gunnigle Patrick,
Wachter Hartmut
Publication year - 2005
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.1468-2338.2005.00379.x
Subject(s) - subsidiary , business , human settlement , industrial relations , industrial organization , economic geography , multinational corporation , economics , management , finance , archaeology , history
This article examines the impact of contemporary business practices within the American business system on established patterns of industrial relations (IR) management in European subsidiaries of US multinationals, specifically how established firm‐level settlements for the management of IR may or may not combine with host‐country effects to constrain such innovations. The empirical material leads us to evaluate subsidiaries of US multinationals as a contingent factor indicating that institutional effects at the level of the national business system are likely to be more embedded than the effects of ownership on employment and IR at firm level.