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The challenge and meaning of justice in northern Uganda
In: African security review, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 67-83
ISSN: 2154-0128
Ruth the Butch
In: Journal of lesbian studies, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 145-145
ISSN: 1540-3548
Criminal: Karen Squibb-Williams explains the new CPS policy on cases involving DNA evidence
In: Jane's defence weekly: JDW, Band 41, Heft 46, S. 1693
ISSN: 0265-3818
Procurement Trends - Federal Procurement Reform Myths Slow Down Progress
In: National defense, Heft 540, S. 34-35
ISSN: 0092-1491
Global, national and local practices in multinational corporations: towards a sociopolitical framework
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 49-69
ISSN: 1466-4399
Developing Simulator Networks
In: Military simulation & training: MST ; the training journal, Heft 5, S. 22-27
ISSN: 0937-6348
The Legal, Political and Institutional Implications of the Isoglucose Judgments 1980
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 173-190
ISSN: 1468-5965
The Legal, Political, and Institutional Implications of the Isoglucose Judgments, 1980
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 173
ISSN: 0021-9886
Negotiating the normative: theothernormal for mothers of disabled children
In: Journal of family studies, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 324-340
ISSN: 1839-3543
Greeningthe airline pilot: HRM and the green performance of airlines in the UK
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 152-166
ISSN: 1466-4399
Examining a Drug Court Treatment Program in New Jersey: A Perspective from the Field
In: Alcoholism treatment quarterly: the practitioner's quarterly for individual, group, and family therapy, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 85-90
ISSN: 1544-4538
Change Management in MNCs: How Global Convergence Intertwines with National Diversities
In: Human relations: towards the integration of the social sciences, Band 56, Heft 7, S. 807-838
ISSN: 1573-9716, 1741-282X
This article presents case studies of three of the four global players in the lifts and escalator industry (controlling three-quarters of the respective world market). It is based on chiefly qualitative data from headquarters level (based in the US, Finland and Germany) and comparative data from their British and German subsidiaries. The object of the research is change management processes in the work systems at subsidiary level. The central research question of the study is to analyse how these processes are shaped by globalization on the one hand and national institutional contexts on the other hand. In doing so, the authors position their research between the two dominant families of approaches in international business research, recently characterized by Child as `low-context' and `high-context' approaches. The study is process- (rather than structure-) oriented and shows how global and national effects shape the design of the work systems at the subsidiary level and reveals that there is no one best way of globalizing in MNCs. The analysis in this article focuses on the cross-national comparison of the subsidiaries, but at the same time highlights the relevance of the societal institutions of MNCs' home countries as well.