Critical Perspectives on International Business

Purpose: This study aims to explore how MNCs from different market economies perceive and respond to institutional voids in emerging markets. Specifically, it examines whether and why multinational corporations (MNCs) from liberal market economies (LMEs) and coordinated market economies (CMEs) devel…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the scope for action of local human resource managers, who are employed in foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies (MNCs), for implementing training activities. These managers are situated in relationships to headquarters and the local environ…

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 enterprises (MNEs) institutional entrepreneurs creating change in job quality and decent work to underprivileged workers in the low…

Purpose: Building on neo-institutionalism models of the transfer of human resource management (HRM) practices within multinational companies, this paper aims to analyze the transfer of skill formation concepts using the cases of two automotive OEMs in Slovakia. The purpose of the paper is twofold. F…

Purpose: This paper aims to examine multinational companies’ (MNCs) international transfer strategies of German vocational education and training (VET) and examines the dynamics in the subsidiaries. Design/methodology/approach: Methodologically, the study is based on expert interviews conducted in G…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework that addresses the question of how and why multinational corporations (MNCs) from developed economies engage in divergent patterns of institutional entrepreneurship (IE) in emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach: The aut…