Accommodating Global Capitalism? State Policy and Industrial Relations in American MNCs in Ireland

Patrick Gunnigle, David G. Collings and Michael J. Morley

Chapter 4 in Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices, 2006, pp 86-108 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The impact of multinational corporations (MNCs) on host country industrial relations (IR) has long been a source of academic debate (cf. Bomers and Peterson, 1977). In evaluating the impact of MNCs, Gennard and Steuer (1971: 144) argued that it is ‘the foreignness of subsidiary behaviour which matters’, while, more recently, Ferner and Quintanilla (2002: 245) suggest that their key influence is that they ‘act as agents of change by introducing innovations into their subsidiaries and thence into the host business system’. It is this latter influence with which this chapter is concerned.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Trade Union; Collective Bargaining; Industrial Relation; Union Avoidance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230502307_4

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