Chinese multinational corporations' responses to host country trade unions: an eclectic approach

Title: Chinese multinational corporations' responses to host country trade unions: an eclectic approach
Creator: Shuqin Zhu, Judith
Relation: Journal of Industrial Relations Vol. 57, Issue 2, p. 232-249
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185614564375
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: This paper explores Chinese multinational corporations' responses to trade unions in host countries. Using an in-depth case study analysis of the policies on union representation and union-management relations in six Chinese multinational corporations, this paper demonstrates that Chinese multinational corporations' responses to host country unions are primarily shaped by home and host institutions, rational choices of firms, and organizational learning. It concludes that while rational choice and institutional theory, the two dominant lenses used in existing literature, are helpful in understanding the industrial relations practices in multinational corporations, they need to be supplemented with an organizational learning perspective in an analysis of industrial relation practices in multinational corporations from emerging markets.
Subject: emerging markets; multinational corporations; trade unions; China
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327659
Identifier: uon:25712
Identifier: ISSN:0022-1856
Language: eng
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