A number of studies have noted the influence of national differences on HRM strategic choice and practices of multinational companies (MNC's). These have mostly concerned the influence of the characteristic s of a host country on management practice in the subsidiaries, that is an ethnocentric strategy or the process of forward diffusion. In particular they have focussed on the way in which the...

This empirical research analyses how firm resources influence the choice of governance structures in strategic alliances in the German telecommunications industry. The results of the study indicate that the choice of governance structure is determined by knowledge-based resources rather than resource heterogeneity, and support the claim that partner firms will use equity to safeguard their know...

This paper suggests a theory of choice among strategic situations when the rules of play are not properly specified. We take the view that a “strategic situation” is adequately described by a TU game since it specifies what is feasible for each coalition but is silent on the procedures that are used to allocate the surplus. We model the choice problem facing a decision maker (DM) as having to c...