Understanding varieties of flexibility and security in multinationals: Product markets, institutional variation and local bargaining

What is it about?

This article advances understanding of the influences of decentralized rule-making and its links with the macro level by drawing on case study research in four multinational companies, each with subsidiaries in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the UK

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Why is it important?

It shows that product market characteristics affect local autonomy to define human resource policies and national institutions and local circumstances then affect the capabilities of trade unions and local works councils to negotiate local flexibility-security

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