Multinationals&apos; Policies and Local Responses: findings from cross-national case studies in Germany, France and the USA

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This paper examines the complex interaction between globalisation practices of multinational corporations and the governing potential of response by local systems of employment regulation in light of rationalisation processes linked to financial market driven strategies. It investigates this issue by looking at optimisation programmes conceived and developed at the central headquarters of two German multinational companies and then traces their implementation at local sites in three different international settings: Germany, the USA and France. A central focus was the role that industrial relations systems play in the transformation process and whether (or how) the response varies according to the strength and coordination of the institutionalised system of industrial relations. The study shows that differences still remain in the form and strength of the industrial relations systems in these three countries. However, in all three cases, a new development in industrial relations is taking place in which areas potentially relevant for bargaining are left ‘unoccupied’. That is, they are missed completely in the traditional negotiating agendas of industrial relations actors.

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[2] Applebaum, E. & R. Batt (1994) The New American Workplace , Ithaca, New York: ILR Press

[3] Bechtle, G. & B. Lutz (1989) ‘Die Unbestimmtheit postTayloristischer Rationalisierungsstrategien und die ungewisse Zukunft industrieller Arbeit’, K. Düll, & B.Lutz, B., (eds), Technikentwicklung unnd Arbeitsteilung im internationaler Vergleich . Frankfurt Main: Campus

[4] Beck, U. (2002) Macht und Gegenmacht im globalen Zeitalter – Neue weltpolitische Ökonomie , Frankfurt: Suhrkamp

[5] Beck, U. (ed) (1998) Politik der Globalisierung , Frankfurt: Suhrkamp

[6] Behr, M. von (1999) ‘Power Plant Production: Continuity and Innovation in a Core Business’, J. Bélanger, C. Berggren, C. Björkman & C. Köhler (eds) Being Local Worldwide , Ithaca: ILR Press:217–232

[7] Behr, M. von; Hirsch-Kreinsen, H. (eds.) (1998) Globale Produktion und Industriearbeit – Arbeitsorganisation und Kooperation in Produktionsnetzwerken , Frankfurt, New York

[8] Berger, S.; Dore, R. (1996) National Diversity and Global Capitalism , Ithaca and London: New York: Cornell University Press

[9] Bergmann, J. (2001) ‘Betriebsräte in Shareholder-Kapitalismus: ratios: Einige Befunde aus einer Befragung von Betriebsräten und Vertrauensleuten’, J. Abel & H.J. Sperling (eds), Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten. Perspektiven nationaler und internationaler Arbeitsbeziehungen , München: Mering: VS: 101–112

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