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Varieties of capitalism in multinational companies: A comparative study of Volkswagen Slovakia and Kia Motors Slovakia
Competition & Change ( IF 3.062 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 , DOI: 10.1177/1024529420940925
Thomas Haipeter 1, 2 , Hyung Je Jo 2
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This paper is about industrial relation (IR) strategies and practices in multinational companies (MNCs). It is based on a comparison of these practices in subsidiaries of different MNC within one country. We discuss how far differences and commonalities can be explained by national IR institutions, by company structures and cultures or by the agency of IR actors. In doing so, this will also address the broader question of how far the varieties of capitalism affect what MNCs do abroad and if, and in what way, they adapt to local conditions in terms of IRs and union structures. The paper is based on a case study comparison of two of the biggest automotive companies, Volkswagen and Hyundai, and their production locations in Slovakia. Both companies have different institutional backgrounds in their host countries with different patterns of labour relations, they are internationalized on a growing level and they both have foreign operations in identical countries like in Slovakia, which makes it possible to analyse the effects of institutions, strategies and labour agency by a comparison of establishments. There are two main findings exposing a strong interplay of the factors under scrutiny. First, in both companies, the local IR patterns are strongly shaped by the varieties of institutions at the company headquarters, whereas the IR institutions of the host country are adapted to them; and second, agency plays a growing role as the labour shortage improves the power position of the unions.

中文翻译:

跨国公司资本主义的多样性:大众斯洛伐克和起亚汽车斯洛伐克的比较研究

本文是关于跨国公司 (MNC) 的劳资关系 (IR) 战略和实践。它基于对一个国家内不同跨国公司子公司的这些做法的比较。我们讨论了国家 IR 机构、公司结构和文化或 IR 参与者的机构可以在多大程度上解释差异和共性。在这样做的过程中,这也将解决更广泛的问题,即资本主义的多样性对跨国公司在国外的业务影响有多大,它们是否以及以何种方式适应当地条件和工会结构。该论文基于对大众汽车和现代汽车这两家最大的汽车公司及其在斯洛伐克的生产地点的案例研究比较。两家公司在东道国都有不同的制度背景,劳动关系模式也不同,它们的国际化程度越来越高,而且它们都在斯洛伐克等相同的国家有海外业务,这使得分析制度、战略和战略的影响成为可能。劳务中介机构比较。有两个主要发现揭示了受审查因素之间的强烈相互作用。首先,在两家公司中,当地投资者关系模式受公司总部机构多样性的强烈影响,而东道国的投资者关系机构则与之相适应;其次,随着劳动力短缺提高了工会的权力地位,代理的作用越来越大。它们的国际化程度不断提高,并且它们都在斯洛伐克等相同的国家/地区开展了海外业务,这使得通过比较机构来分析机构、战略和劳务中介的效果成为可能。有两个主要发现揭示了受审查因素之间的强烈相互作用。首先,在两家公司中,当地投资者关系模式受公司总部机构多样性的强烈影响,而东道国的投资者关系机构则与之相适应;其次,随着劳动力短缺提高了工会的权力地位,代理的作用越来越大。它们的国际化程度不断提高,并且它们都在斯洛伐克等相同的国家/地区开展了海外业务,这使得通过比较机构来分析机构、战略和劳务中介的效果成为可能。有两个主要发现揭示了受审查因素之间的强烈相互作用。首先,在两家公司中,当地投资者关系模式受公司总部机构多样性的强烈影响,而东道国的投资者关系机构则与之相适应;其次,随着劳动力短缺提高了工会的权力地位,代理的作用越来越大。有两个主要发现揭示了受审查因素之间的强烈相互作用。首先,在两家公司中,当地投资者关系模式受公司总部机构多样性的强烈影响,而东道国的投资者关系机构则与之相适应;其次,随着劳动力短缺提高了工会的权力地位,代理的作用越来越大。有两个主要发现揭示了受审查因素之间的强烈相互作用。首先,在两家公司中,当地投资者关系模式受公司总部机构多样性的强烈影响,而东道国的投资者关系机构则与之相适应;其次,随着劳动力短缺提高了工会的权力地位,代理的作用越来越大。
更新日期:2020-07-20
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