Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices

JACQUES BÉLANGER Professor, Département des relations industrielles, Université Laval, CanadaDAVID G. COLLINGS Member of Human Resource Management Research Group, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, and Visiting Research Fellow, Strathclyde International Business Unit, University of Strathclyde, UKPAUL EDWARDS Professor of Industrial Relations, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UKTONY ELGER Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Comparative Labour Studies, University of Warwick, UKPATRICK GUNNIGLE Professor of Business Studies and Director of the Employment Relations Research Unit, University of Limerick, Republic of IrelandRICHARD HYMAN Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, UK CHRISTEL LANE Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SPS), University of Cambridge, UKGUGLIELMO MEARDI Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick, UKGLENN MORGAN Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UKMICHAEL J. MORLEY Assistant Dean, Research and Senior Lecturer, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland VALERIA PULIGNANO Professor of the Sociology of Labour, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BelgiumSIGRID QUACK Research Fellow, Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Berlin, GermanyJOCELYN PROBERT Lecturer in International Management and Organization, Birmingham Business School, University ofBirmingham, UKCHRIS SMITH Professor of Organization Studies, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKSULLY TAYLOR Professor of International Management and Human Resource Management, and Director of the Master of International Management, Portland State University, USAANDRAS TÓTH Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

'...the volume is well wirtten and coherent. It raises some important questions and makes an important theoretical and empirical contribution.' - British Journal of Industrial Relations 46:1 March 08

• Introduction: Multinationals and the Multilevel Politics of Cross-National Diffusion; A.Ferner, J.Quintanilla & C.Sánchez-Runde Towards a Political Economy Framework: TNCs as National and Global Players; J.Bélanger & P.Edwards Theorising the Role of the International Subsidiary: Transplants, Hybrids and Branch-Plants Revisited; T.Elger & C.Smith Accommodating Global Capitalism? State Policy and Industrial Relations in American MNCs in Ireland; P.Gunnigle & D.G.Collings & M.J.Morley Emerging Motivations for Global HRM Integration; S.Taylor Patterns of Integration in American Multinational Subsidiaries in Europe; V.Pulignano Who is Hybridizing What? Insights on MNCs' Employment Practices in Central Europe; G.Meardi & A.Tóth Globalization and Labour Market Segmentation: The Impact of Global Production Networks on Employment Patterns of German and UK Clothing Firms; C.Lane & J.Probert Global Networks or Global Firms? The Organizational Implications of the Internationalization of Law Firms; G.Morgan & S.Quack Structuring the Transnational Space: Can Europe Resist Multinational Capital?; R.Hyman