A major limitation of existing international business (IB) research remains the rather thin
view of institutional context. In this retrospective, we reflect upon and highlight different …

This article analyzes the impact of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse on garment lead
firms' labor standards policies in the light of new governance approaches, particularly the …

This paper considers Geert Hofstede's claim that his national cultural 'dimension scores' and
related rankings of countries enable effective prediction by examining a causal …

This article looks at the evolution of industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe after
the so-called 'eastern enlargement'between 2004 and 2013. The main claim is that 20 years …

This article examines how the rules of micro-political game playing, based on the global
standardization and cost leadership approach of a European 'hard discounter', are …

BACKGROUND Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important gastroenteritis pathogen
contaminating seafood in China. In this study a total of 992 seafood samples from major …

Trade unions face major challenges in developing effective responses to the growing
international scope, integration and complexity of multinational companies' operations …

This chapter addresses different types of institutional change in collective bargaining
regimes and the underlying mechanisms. In recent decades, collective bargaining coverage …

Purpose The paper aims to provide an understanding of how the transfer of progressive
human resource management (HRM) practices may or may fail to render multinational …

This article analyses the expansion of precarious work in industrialized economies,
integrating the welfare regime, risk shift and segmentation literatures. I examine trends in …