...Bill Taylor Purpose This paper aims to examine the relations between supply chain strategies and impact on terms and conditions of employment of multinational corporations operating in China. Design/methodology/approach Case study analysis of two production plants owned by leading...

...Werner H. Braun; Malcolm Warner In the past two decades, the way enterprises in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) manage their human resources has changed dramatically. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have entered into the “strategic investor” phase, where now the integration of PRC operations...

... edition . Maidenhead : McGraw‐Hill   2000 . 800 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0071160930   £31.99 (paperback) © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Multinationals Cross‐cultural management International business management, the authors imply, presents practitioners and researchers with a paradox...

...Hugo Letiche Questions whether human resources are being viewed in Slovakia in a manner which transcends profit maximisation. Compares three cases of corporate HR action in post‐communism: two take place within multinationals which have set up shop in the former Czechoslovakia and one is a domestic...

... composition of the workforce. The multinational case studies have two characteristics which locate them firmly within the recent empirical agendas of the HRM literature. First, they are both "greenfield site" developments, and as such conform with some of Guest's[9] preconditions for the successful...

...Nigel Nicholson; John Arnold This article continues the story of graduates’ early career development which the authors began in the Vol. 18 No. 3 issue of Personnel Review. In recounting graduates’ early career experience in four departments of a multinational company, the authors reflect...