Title Globalizing employment relations : multinational firms and Central and Eastern Europe transitions / edited by Sylvie Contrepois [and others]

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages) : illustrations Contents INTRODUCTION -- Globalising Employment Relations and Crisis: the role of Multinational Company transfers to Central and Eastern Europe; S. Contrepois, V. Delteil, P. Dieuaide and S. Jefferys -- PART I: FDI TRANSFERS AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE -- Exporting the American model of employee representation; A. Ferner -- MNC social transfers to CEE; G. Meardi, F. Traxler and S. Strohmer -- Manufacturing and services FDI trajectories: colonial perceptions and union opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe; S. Jefferys -- PART II: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN DIFFERENT SECTORS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE -- Surviving the Global Financial Crisis; S. Contrepois, V. Delteil, P. Dieuaide and S. Jefferys -- MNCs, HRM and Social Dialogue in the East European Food Industry; P. Dieuaide -- Exporting the German work model to Central and Eastern Europe; M. Krzywdzinski -- PART III: MULTINATIONALS AND HOST COUNTRIES IN THE CRISIS -- Employment relations and the opening up to MNCs in Hungary; J. Koltay -- How French are French MNCs in Hungary? L. Szabo and V. Zentai -- MNCs and the transformation of Bulgarian employment relations'; Z. Vladimirov -- Polish employment relations under the challenge of French€FDI; A. Kwiatkiewicz -- Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue in the Baltic States -- Crisis, Conflict and Compromise; C. Woolfson, J. Birzins and E. Kallaste -- PART IV: EUROPEAN SOCIAL INTEGRATION, MNCS AND CHANGE -- Internationalizing Firms and Employee Representation: French Multinationals in Central and Eastern Europe; S. Contrepois -- Central and Eastern European employment relations models and the challenge of change? V. Delteil -- Is Central and Eastern Europe a Laboratory for New Forms of Employment Relations? G. Groux Machine generated contents note: -- INTRODUCTION -- Globalising Employment Relations and Crisis: the role of Multinational Company transfers to Central and Eastern Europe -- FDI TRANSFERS AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE -- Exporting the American model of employee representation: institutional resistance and accommodation -- MNC social transfers to CEE: British, US, Austrian and German experiences reviewed -- Manufacturing and services FDI trajectories: colonial perceptions and union opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe -- EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN DIFFERENT SECTORS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE -- Responses to recession: FDI in the finance and automobile sectors -- MNCs, HRM and Social Dialogue in the East European Food Industry: the Principal Findings of a Field Survey -- Exporting the German work model to Central and Eastern Europe -- MULTINATIONALS AND HOST COUNTRIES IN THE CRISIS -- Employment relations and the opening up to MNCs in Hungary -- How French are French MNCs in Hungary? -- MNCs and the transformation of Bulgarian employment relations'. -- Polish employment relations under the challenge of FDI -- Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue in the Baltic States -- Crisis, Conflict and Compromise -- EUROPEAN SOCIAL INTEGRATION, MNCS AND CHANGE -- Employee representation in MNC subsidiaries in CEE: management strategies, continuities and change -- Central and Eastern European employment relations models and the challenge of change? -- CEE: a laboratory to test new forms of employment relations Summary How has foreign investment helped transform the ten former-Communist members of the European Union? € What role have multinational corporations based in France, Germany and the US played in changing work and employment relations? € What impact have the European Social Model and European Works Councils had? What is happening now to these economies in face of the global economic crisis? € Is foreign direct investment a new colonialism or a real boost to the region? € This book's€expert contributions offer major insights into the ways in which multinational corporations are helping to transform Central and Eastern Europe. Based on original fieldwork into the behaviours of French, German and American corporations, the evidence of a partial transfer of employment relations models comes from service sector multinationals like Accor, Carrefour and Socǐť Ǧňrale as well as those in the automobile industry like Volkswagen and Renault and in food processing like Danone and Bongrain "A unique exploration of the contributions made by multinational corporations to the difficult labour market transitions towards full integration of Central and Eastern Europe members of the European Union. This book considers the roles played by US, British and German multinational companies (MNCs) in Central and Eastern Europe"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Industrial relations -- Europe, Central Industrial relations -- Europe, Eastern International business enterprises -- Europe, Central International business enterprises -- Europe, Eastern Post-communism -- Europe, Central Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management. Industrial relations International business enterprises Post-communism Central Europe Eastern Europe Form Electronic book Author Contrepois, Sylvie. ISBN 9780230306813 0230306810

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