Phil Almond
Professor of international management, Loughborough University London.
My research focuses on:
- MNCs and employment relations
- MNCs and local/regional strategies for attracting FDI
- Comparative HRM and comparative capitalisms
- How actors within and around international firms seek to gain the capacity to develop and work in international environments
My research focuses on:
- MNCs and employment relations
- MNCs and local/regional strategies for attracting FDI
- Comparative HRM and comparative capitalisms
- How actors within and around international firms seek to gain the capacity to develop and work in international environments
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between multinational corporations
(MNCs), and what we call sub-national
governance actors. By sub-national
governance actors, we refer to local and
regional agencies with direct public
responsibility for attracting and retaining
FDI and/or for fostering environments
favourable to high-quality inward
investment. These include local and
regional development agencies, the
relevant levels and departments of local,
regional and national government, skills
agencies and providers, and various
forms of business alliances, such as
localised cluster-type organisations
between multinational corporations
(MNCs), and what we call sub-national
governance actors. By sub-national
governance actors, we refer to local and
regional agencies with direct public
responsibility for attracting and retaining
FDI and/or for fostering environments
favourable to high-quality inward
investment. These include local and
regional development agencies, the
relevant levels and departments of local,
regional and national government, skills
agencies and providers, and various
forms of business alliances, such as
localised cluster-type organisations
From Piekkari, Rethinking the Case Study in International Business and Management Research, Edward Elgar. Order the book for your library, obviously.
this paper examines how governance actors at sub-national regional levels have constructed
responses to the international competition for FDI. It is based on intensive qualitative
comparative research across eight sub-national regions in four advanced industrialised
economies which, to varying degrees, have economies in which FDI plays an important role:
Canada, Ireland, Spain, and the UK. It draws on interviews both with governance actors, and
with subsidiary unit managers in regionally important multinational corporations.
It finds significant differences in governance patterns both within and between nations. These
are shaped both by the broad nature of economic coordination, particularly the contrast between
liberal and social democrat variants of capitalism, and by the nature of territorial political
arrangements within nation states. Our results suggest that those governance systems that have
benefitted from a degree of political consensus, and where there are clear interlocutors between
the subsidiary units of MNCs and the public realm, have a greater chance of potentially creating
positive outcomes. Foreign MNC engagement with regional institutions tends to occur mainly at
points where the subsidiary unit is involved in international contests for investment, and is
relatively restrained outside this. Nevertheless, there is no indication that local managers of
foreign MNCs perceive more coordinated regional variants of capitalism more negatively than
more liberal variants.
By now you should probably basically ignore the second half, but there was something interesting in the first nine pages I reckon.
Pretty much, the point of no-return on the regions project.
Abstract: what happened when I read David Marsden's Theory of Employment Systems...
Presentation for doctoral class at ERIUM, Université de Montréal, Nov 2014