Globalizing Employment Relations: Multinational Firms and Central and Eastern Europe Transitions

257 Pages·2011·1.618 MB·English

by  Sylvie Contrepois, Violaine Delteil, Patrick Dieuaide, Steve Jefferys (eds.)

Globalizing Employment Relations
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Globalizing Employment
Relations
Multinational Firms and Central and Eastern
Europe Transitions
Editedby
Sylvie Contrepois
Violaine Delteil
Patrick Dieuaide
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Steve Jefferys
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Contents
ListofTablesandFigures vii
AuthorDetails ix
GlobalizingEmploymentRelationsandCrisis:Multinational
CompaniesandCentralandEasternEuropeanTransitions
andTransfers 1
SylvieContrepois,ViolaineDelteil,PatrickDieuaideandSteveJefferys
Part I ForeignDirectInvestment,Multinationalsand
EmploymentRelationsTransfers
1 USMultinationalsandCollectiveRepresentationinEuropean
Subsidiaries:InstitutionalResistanceandAccommodation 9
AnthonyFerner
2 TheSocialTransfersofMultinationalsinCentralEurope:
British,US,AustrianandGermanExperiencesReviewed 29
GuglielmoMeardi,SonjaStrohmerandFranzTraxler
3 ManufacturingandServicesFDITrajectories:Colonial
PerceptionsandUnionOpportunitiesinCentralandEastern
Europe 45
SteveJefferys
Part II EmploymentRelationsinDifferentSectorsin
CentralandEasternEurope
4 SurvivingtheGlobalFinancialCrisis:Automobilesand
FinanceinCentralandEasternEurope 65
SylvieContrepois,ViolaineDelteil,PatrickDieuaideand
SteveJefferys
5 MNCs,HumanResourceManagementandSocialDialogue
intheCentralandEasternEuropeanFoodIndustry 83
PatrickDieuaide
6 ExportingtheGermanWorkModeltoCentraland
EasternEurope 99
MartinKrzywdzinski
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vi Contents
Part III MultinationalsandHostCountriesintheCrisis
7 EmploymentRelationsandtheOpeningUptoMNCs
inHungary 119
Jen˝oKoltay
8 HowFrenchAreFrenchMNCsinHungary?AComparisonof
TwoServiceSectorFirms 134
LindaSzabóandViolaZentai
9 MNCsandtheTransformationofBulgarianEmployment
Relations 150
ZhelyuVladimirov
10 PolishEmploymentRelationsUndertheChallengeofFrench
ForeignDirectInvestment 165
AnnaKwiatkiewicz
11 IndustrialRelationsandSocialDialogueintheBaltic
States–Crisis,ConflictandCompromise 179
CharlesWoolfson,EppKallasteandJanisBerzins
Part IV EuropeanSocialIntegration,MNCsandChange
12 InternationalizingFirmsandEmployeeRepresentation:French
MultinationalsinCentralandEasternEurope 201
SylvieContrepois
13 CentralandEasternEuropeanSocialModelsand
theChallengeofChange 217
ViolaineDelteil
14 IsCentralandEasternEuropeaLaboratoryforNewForms
ofEmploymentRelations? 233
GuyGroux
Index 245
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
2.1 MNCsintheCzechRepublic:intensityoftransfersinthe
areaofHR,IRandotherareasandHRcoordination 38
3.1 FDIandGreenfieldsitesinCentralandEasternEurope,
2006–08,rankedbyannualaverageFDI 46
3.2 CEE10TradeUnionisms,2007–08(rankedbytradeunion
density) 54
3.3 Employmentshares(%)ofGoodsandServiceSectors,
1975–2005 55
3.4 BrownfieldandGreenfieldinvestmentsandemployee
representationrankedineightFrenchservicesectorMNCs,
2006–08 59
4.1 PercentagechangeinrealGrossDomesticProductinsixCEE
economies,2006–10 67
4.2 Unemploymentrateasapercentoftotallabourforceinten
CEEeconomies,2004–09 67
5.1 Shareholder-andfamily-ownedFrenchfoodMNCs
compared 87
5.2 TheemploymentrelationsmodelsusedinCEEsubsidiaries
ofFrenchMNCs 94
10.1 ContractualandworkingarrangementsinPolandand
selectedEUmembers(2008) 167
12.1 EightFrenchmultinationalsinthreecountries 204
12.2 SelectedindustrialrelationsfeaturesofMNCsubsidiariesin
Bulgaria,HungaryandPolandinfluencedbya
compartmentalapproach 208
12.3 SelectedindustrialrelationsfeaturesofMNCsubsidiariesin
Bulgaria,HungaryandPolandinfluencedbyanintegration
approach 210
Figures
3.1 Economicdevelopmentandforeigndirectinvestment 48
3.2 CEEgrossdomesticproductinpurchasingpowerstandards
comparedtotheEU27average,1997–2008 49
3.3 UnemploymentintheCEE10andtheEU15,1996–2009 51
3.4 UniondensityratesintheCEEandtheEU,1960–2005 53
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viii ListofTablesandFigures
4.1 Numbersofforeign-ownedbanksinPoland,Bulgariaand
Hungary,1991–2008 69
4.2 ChangesinHungarianfinancialassetownership(percent)
bystate-ownedorforeign-ownedbanks,1991–2008 69
4.3 ChangesinPolishfinancialassetownership(percent)by
state-ownedorforeign-ownedbanks,1993–2008 70
4.4 ChangesinBulgarianfinancialassetownership(percent)by
state-ownedorforeign-ownedbanks,1996–2008 70
4.5 Financeandbusinessemploymentasapercentoftotal
employment,intheEU15,EU10(2004accessioncountries)
andinPoland,theCzechRepublicandHungary,1992–2005 71
4.6 CentralandEasternEuropeancarproduction,2000–08 76
4.7 JobsintheEuropeancarindustry(000s) 76
11.1 RealGDPgrowthrate,EU,Estonia,LatviaandLithuania,
2000–10 180
Author Details
Berzins,Janis LecturerinInternationalPoliticalEconomyatRigaStradins
University’s Faculty of European Studies in Latvia. Janis’s research is on
developmentproblemsandtheroleofideologyineconomicpolicy.
Contrepois,Sylvie SeniorresearcheratLondonMetropolitanUniversity’s
Working Lives Research Institute and member of the CRESPPA-GTM CNRS
(National Centre of Scientific Research) institute in France. Sylvie is the
author of Syndicats, la nouvelle donne: Enquête au Coeur d’un bassin industriel
etouvrier(2003).
Delteil, Violaine Director of the Department of European Studies, Uni-
versity Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and Assistant Professor in Economics.
AuthorofvariousarticlesonEuropeanintegrationandEuropeanindustrial
relations.
Dieuaide, Patrick Senior Lecturer, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3,
member of ICEE-Paris 3, and Researcher associated with ENSTA-ParisTech.
Author of numerous articles and research papers on the transformations of
thework,thestrategyoffirmsandsocialrelationships.
Ferner,Anthony ProfessorofInternationalHumanResourceManagement
at De Montfort University, his main research is on employment practices
inmultinationals.Hisbooksinclude(co-editedwithPhilAlmond)American
Multinationals in Europe (2006), and (co-edited with Javier Quintanilla and
Carlos Sánchez-Runde), Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of
TransnationalPractice(2006).
Groux,Guy ResearchDirectoratCNRSandSciencesPo-Paris.Heteachesat
Sciences Po-Paris and ESCP-Europe (European School of Management) and
is the author of numerous books and articles about trade unions in France
andEuropeincludingLaGrève(withJean-MariePernot)in2008.
Jefferys, Steve Director of London Metropolitan University’s Working
Lives Research Institute and Professor of European Employment Studies,
Steve is the author of Management, Work and Welfare in Western Europe:
An Historical and Contemporary Analysis (2000) with Mick Carpenter, and of
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