Information provision is an important part of all mechanisms which give employees voice at work. This paper considers the law on information disclosure for joint consultation and collective bargaining in three countries, Germany, France, and the UK, chosen for their distinctive legal and...

Only recently have the aspects of pollution and environmental protection entered into the empirical literature about international firm activities. The present paper is the first firm-level study on the link between foreign ownership and environmental protection in Germany. We find that, ceteris...

Ecological innovations have increasingly been seen as a major response to environmental problems. An important question for both economic research and public policy is whether these innovations also increase employment or not (the question of a double dividend). The purpose of this paper is to...

This special issue is dedicated to examining some current issues in international HRM; it contributes mainly to the field of HRM in the multinational enterprise. However, it clearly also draws on knowledge from cross-cultural IHRM. The guest editors have identified three topics that have gained...

National employment systems are changing primarily through the activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In order to understand in how far national employment systems are susceptible to change, we revisit important quantitative empirical studies published since 1994 on the transfer of...

This special issue is dedicated to examining some current issues in international HRM; it contributes mainly to the field of HRM in the multinational enterprise. However, it clearly also draws on knowledge from cross-cultural IHRM. The guest editors have identified three topics that have gained...

Institutionalistische Ansaetze des Vergleichs gehen meist von national einheitlichen Modellen industrieller Beziehungen aus. Der vorliegende Beitrag kritisiert diese Annahme. Im Rahmen eines interessen- sowie repraesentationstheoretischen Ansatzes untersucht er Wirtschaftssegmente ‚jenseits...

In Deutschland sind die Aufsichtsratsbildung sowie die damit einhergehende Arbeitnehmermitbestimmung abhaengig von der Rechtsform und Firmengroesse gesetzlich vorgeschrieben. Die vorliegende Arbeit demonstriert, dass entgegen den rechtskraeftigen Regelungen weniger als die Haelfte aller GmbHs im...

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear “shadow of death” effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several...