The renewed ‘American Challenge’: a review of employment practice in US multinationals

By T. Edwards, A. Ferner. 2002

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Comparing capitalisms: understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business (2008, background): “…the strong institutionalization of shareholder-value in US MNEs leads these firms to cope with German stakeholderoriented institutions largely through institutional avoidance and imposition of home country practices outside the boundaries of home country institutions (Edwards & Ferner, 2002).”
From the Firm to the Network: Global Value Chains and Employment Relations Theory (2013, unknown): “…national boundaries affects firm (or “establishment”) level employment relations systems (i.e. “home” vs. “host” country effects: Almond et al 2005; Edwards and Ferner 2002; Ferner 2000), they are much less useful for understanding how the connectedness between firms across national…”
Subsidiary responses to institutional duality: Collective representation practices of US multinationals in Britain and Germany (2006, background): “…origin have been shown to adopt a more ethnocentric, centralized and standardized approach to HRM than MNCs of other nationality (for a review, see Edwards & Ferner, 2002) and, informed by their home country institutional environment, are particularly hostile to collective worker representation…”
Towards a More Dynamic Theory of Capitalist Variety (2007, background): “MNCs may successfully export practices from their home country to foreign institutional settings (Edwards and Ferner 2002), exploiting the literature, are not favored by that institutional environment.”
Micro-politics and conflicts in multinational corporations: Current debates, re-framing, and contributions of this special issue (2006, background): “…and the industrial policy of the national government – influence the MNC’s forms of control (e.g. Dörrenbächer, 2000; Harzing and Sorge, 2003), work systems (e.g. Geppert et al., 2003), production systems (e.g. Hollingsworth and Boyer, 1997) and employment practices (e.g. Edwards and Ferner, 2002).”
Unraveling Home and Host Country Effects: An Investigation of the HR Policies of an American Multinational in Four European Countries (2005, unknown): “Edwards and Ferner (2002), for example, identify four influences on MNC behavior, namely country of origin effects, dominance effects, pressures for international integration, and host country effects.”