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dc.contributor.authorRoyle, Tony*
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-12T11:29:47Z
dc.date.available2014-11-12T11:29:47Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.citationRoyle, T. (2004) Employment Practices of Multinationals in the Spanish and German Quick-Food Sectors: Low-Road Convergence?, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 10, 1: 51-71.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/6589
dc.descriptionNoen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the labour relations practices of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the German and Spanish quick-food service sectors. The demand for greater profitability and lower costs is leading to a greater standardization of work methods across a widening range of food service operators, resulting in the gradual elimination of more expensive, skilled and experienced workers, and an increasingly non-union approach in employee relations practices. The outcome involves increasing standardization, union exclusion, low trust, low skills, and low pay. These sectoral characteristics appear to outweigh both country-of-origin and host-country effects. The findings therefore confirm continuing variation within national industrial relations systems and the importance of sectoral characteristics and organizational contingencies in understanding MNC cross-border behaviour.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.isreferencedbyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680104041191en_US
dc.subjectMultinational corporationsen_US
dc.subjectSpainen_US
dc.subjectGermanyen_US
dc.subjectFast-food industryen_US
dc.subjectEmployment practicesen_US
dc.subjectTrade unionsen_US
dc.titleEmployment Practices of Multinationals in the Spanish and German Quick-Food Sectors: Low-Road Convergence?en_US
dc.status.refereedYesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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