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| Author: | Peltonen, T. |
| Title: | The "newcomer" MNC and the re-organization of national industrial relations actor network: the case of the Finnish food-retailing sector |
| Journal: | International journal of human resource management
2006 : SEP, VOL. 17:9, p. 1591-1605 |
| Index terms: | Finland human resource management industrial relations multinational companies networks |
| Freeterms: | food-retailing sector |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses the institutional-level negotiations and configurations between a "newcomer" multinational, the trade union and the association of employers. Developing a relational approach based on Actor Network Theory, this study looks at the influence of MNCs on human resource and industrial relations systems as a process of re-organizing identities and power positions of the actors. A qualitative study on the case of the entry of the first international company Lidl into the Finnish food-retailing sector indicates that an international company tends to become positioned as an authorial representative of the global market forces, superior to the national actors. |
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