Recently, there has been a move to use a 'fine-grained'approach to the study of the
multinational companies (MNCs). In this paper, we examine in depth a significant part of the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate, at the industry level, the modes of
governance used by multinational companies in the UK petrochemical industry to outsource …

This paper is a case study chronicling and analyzing the strategic considerations given to
industrial relations in a proposal to develop a coherent and deliberate strategy for industrial …

This paper is a case study chronicling and analyzing the strategic considerations given to
industrial relations in a proposal to upgrade and renew a major production unit in a UK oil …

There has to date been no in-depth analysis of the way in which industrial relations practices–
in particular labor agreements–diffuse vertically through an organization and horizontally …