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European Union enlargement and the foreign direct investment channel of industrial relations transfer
Author(s) -
Marginson Paul,
Meardi Guglielmo
Publication year - 2006
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.1468-2338.2006.00392.x
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , foreign direct investment , resizing , industrial relations , investment (military) , dimension (graph theory) , inward investment , economic system , international economics , business , economic geography , international trade , market economy , channel (broadcasting) , european union , economics , political science , management , macroeconomics , law , finance , mathematics , politics , pure mathematics , electrical engineering , engineering
Inward investment by multinational companies represents a vital channel for entrenching the company‐level industrial relations dimension of Europe's social model in the post‐socialist New Member States. Surveying a wide range of existing analysis and evidence, this article concludes that the prospects for diffusion through inward investment are highly contingent. The motive for inward investment, factor composition, host country institutions and the existence of transnational industrial relations structures are all found to be influential contingencies, but not country‐of‐origin or mode of entry.