... Malaysia Multinationals Corporate culture The Asian region has been attracting more and more attention from foreign multinational companies (MNCs) over the last decade (Kabanoff, 1996). In the case of Malaysia, it is argued that the Government’s marketing of low cost, controlled labour with its...

...‐time employees among the home‐country nationals (HCNs). © MCB UP Limited 1997 Hong Kong Human resource policies Japan Multinationals Retail stores Issues of human resource policy in the retail industry have become prominent in Hong Kong partly because of the rapid increase...

... proactively on a global basis (42 per cent) or to compete proactively in the US domestic market (41 per cent). Globalization International trade Management attitudes Multinationals National cultures The mobility of individuals and firms has accentuated the importance of the availability...

... that multinational corporations, a major force in the Thai economy, play in promoting or inhibiting gender‐based employment discrimination. Suggests that multinationals are indeed very important in this process, with significant differences among the effects exerted by the subsidiaries of US, Japanese and European...

... and impairs foreign competition in the Japanese market. Foreign affiliates′ inability to offer employment security is a plausible explanation for such wage premium. Japan Labour costs Multinationals © MCB UP Limited 1992 Economic Affiliates Barriers for Foreign in Japan: The High Economic...

...Fiona Carmichael Considers the role of multinational enterprise in the determination of relative wages. Multinationality of the firm is incorporated in a wage‐bargaining model with asymmetric information. Indicates that the impact of multinational enterprise on wages depends on the profitability...