Learning transfer in multinational companies: explaining inter-organisation variation

Transfer of Human Resource Management Practices within US Multinational Companies

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PRODUCTIVITY SPILLOVERS FROm mULTINATIONAL COmPANIES

Many host country governments assume that inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can bestow large benefits to the economy, bringing not only new investment that boosts national income but also an inflow of new foreign knowledge and technology. The purpose of this chapter is to review the evidence of the importance of these productivity spillovers from inward FDI. It finds that the international...

Multinational pharmaceutical companies gather in Berlin.

The 39th Annual General Meeting of the Pharma Documentation Ring (PDR) was held in Berlin, Germany, on September 26, 1997. Common themes reported on included the impact and widespread use of intranet technology; expansion in end-user searching; experience with electronic journals; and programs for the development of electronic archiving and document management systems. Other sessions discussed ...

Human resource management in multinational companies

Globalisation has provoked some interesting speculation on the part of enthusiasts about a 'globalised economy' in which distinct national economies are subsumed into region-states and companies follow the same set of 'best practices', adopt a convergent model of organisation that leads to a process of homogenisation in their behaviour and a deterioration of national management models (Rowley &...

Explaining Minority-State Bargaining in Multinational States