Employment Practices of Multinationals in the Spanish and German Quick-Food Sectors: Low-Road Convergence?
dc.contributor.author | Royle, Tony | * |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-12T11:29:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-12T11:29:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Royle, 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6589 | |
dc.description | No | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.iso | en | en_US |
dc.relation.isreferencedby | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680104041191 | en_US |
dc.subject | Multinational corporations | en_US |
dc.subject | Spain | en_US |
dc.subject | Germany | en_US |
dc.subject | Fast-food industry | en_US |
dc.subject | Employment practices | en_US |
dc.subject | Trade unions | en_US |
dc.title | Employment Practices of Multinationals in the Spanish and German Quick-Food Sectors: Low-Road Convergence? | en_US |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type.version | No full-text available in the repository | en_US |