Multinational Firms: Labor, Management, and Society

Friday, 3 July 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM


TH08-01
1 - Regions, Global Value Chains and Innovation Systems
Multinational Firms: Labor, Management, and Society

Session Organizers: Phil Almond, De Montfort University; Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal; Tony Edwards, Kings College London

Participants:
Fostering Comparative Advantage in French Regional Economies: The Role of Regional Institutional Actors and Multi-Level Institutional Resources in the Retention of FDI
Andres Feandeiro, De Montfort University
The Role of MNCs within the Global Aerospace Industry in Mexico
Jorge H. Carrillo, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Redi Gomis, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
What Makes MNC-Policy Collaborations Work in Practice?
Olga Tregaskis, University of East Anglia; Phil Almond, De Montfort University; Anthony Ferner, De Montfort University
Embedding Multinational Firms in Regional Business Systems: Neoliberal and Social-Democratic Models in Spain
Maria Carmen Gonzalez Menendez, University of Oviedo; David Luque, University of Oviedo; Gabriel Pruneda, University of Oviedo

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


TH08-02
2 - Multinationals and national employment models
Multinational Firms: Labor, Management, and Society

Session Organizers: Phil Almond, De Montfort University; Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal; Tony Edwards, Kings College London

Participants:
The Organizational Consequences of Host Country Institutions on Mnes: The Case of Work and Employment Relations
Geoffrey Wood, Warwick University; Chris Brewster, University of Reading; Michael Brookes, University of Newcastle
The Distinctiveness of Employment Relations within Multinationals: Empirical Evidence on Patterns of Developmental Concerns
Jacques Belanger, Laval University; Valeria Pulignano, KU Leuven; Nadja Doerflinger, KU Leuven
Exploring the spatial logic of decision making in MNCs: a study of global and regional effects
Annette Hayden, Université du Québec à Rimouski
Expatriation Strategies for the Adaptation of Employment Modes to Different Market Economies
Johannes Meuer, University of Zurich; Marlies Kluike, University of Tuebingen; Uschi Backes-Gellner, University of Zurich; Kerstin Pull, University of Tuebingen
Multinational Companies and Host-Country Institutions:a Comparative Case Study of Vocational Education and Training in Turkey
Vildan Tasli, Manchester Business School

4:00 PM-5:30 PM


TH08-03
3 - Regime Shopping or Embeddedness
Multinational Firms: Labor, Management, and Society

Session Organizers: Phil Almond, De Montfort University; Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal; Tony Edwards, Kings College London

Participants:
The Foxconn Employment System
Jan Drahokoupil, European Trade Union Institute
Economic Transition and the Management of Multinational Companies: A Case Study Analysis of the Transfer of HR Practices in a German and Irish Bank in Poland.
Ilona Hunek, Kozminski University; John Geary, University College Dublin
Opening the Seam to ‘Regime Shopping' and ‘Social Dumping': Airline Operations, Business Strategies and Industrial Relations in Europe and Beyond
Peter Turnbull, Cardiff University
Industrial Relations Practices Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon Companies – the Perspective of Danish Shop Stewards
Trine Pernille Larsen, University of Copenhagen; Steen Erik Navrbjerg, University of Copenhagen
The Creation of Non-Standard Employment: The Case of Norwegian Air Shuttle, a Multinational Embedded in a Coordinated Market Economy
Eli Moen, BI Norwegian Business School

Saturday, 4 July 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM


TH08-04
4 - Global Actors, Global Regulation
Multinational Firms: Labor, Management, and Society

Session Organizers: Phil Almond, De Montfort University; Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal; Tony Edwards, Kings College London

Participants:
Creating and Navigating Transnational Social Spaces within Multinationals – Boundary-Spanning Work and Its Regulation By Global Mobility Policies
Ursula Mense-Petermann, Bielefeld University
The Johnson & Johnson Bridge to Employment Program: Corporate Responsibility and Youth Employment
Michael J Camasso, Rutgers University; Radha Jagannathan, Rutgers University; Michael J Bzdak, Johnson & Johnson; Laura Hollod, Johnson & Johnson
Globalizing Actors: Multinationals and the Creation, Diffusion and Implementation of Global Norms
Phil Almond, De Montfort University; Tony Edwards, Kings College London; Olga Tregaskis, University of East Anglia
Too Weak for the Job? the Political Economy of the Social Regulation of the Activities of Multinational Companies: A Brief History of Interconnections Between Regulatory Sources; How They're Changing; And Why It Matters for Workers, Citizens and Their Com
Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal; Gilles Trudeau, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal

10:15 AM-11:45 AM


TH08-05
5 - Human Rights in Global Supply Chains
Multinational Firms: Labor, Management, and Society

Session Organizers: Phil Almond, De Montfort University; Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal; Tony Edwards, Kings College London

Participants:
Toward an Integrative Theory of the Multinational Firm
Duane Windsor, Rice University
The Bangladesh Accord: Is Corporatist CSR a Blueprint for Transnational Hybrid Regulation of Apparel Production?
Angela Kalyta, McGill University
A Contested and Protected ‘Marketisation' of the Employment Relationship: A Multi-Actor Exploration in Multinational Firms' Pakistani Subsidiaries
Sara Chaudhry, University of Edinburgh Business School
Human Rights: Employment Relations and HRM in the Supply Chain
Michael Muller-Carmen, WU Vienna; Carina Rohr, WU Vienna; Iris Maurer, WU Vienna