One way or another? An international comparison of expatriate performance management in multinational companies

Neurons die one way or another

n page 987, Yu et al. identify a novel cell death pathway that bypasses mito-chondria. The results indicate that various strategies exist to kill off neurons. A lot of the killing of sympathetic neurons occurs in the first week after birth. During that paring period, ‫ف‬ 50% of sympathetic neurons die due to a lack of nerve growth factor (NGF). Neurons deprived of NGF in vitro die through the c...

Human resource management in multinational companies

Globalisation has provoked some interesting speculation on the part of enthusiasts about a 'globalised economy' in which distinct national economies are subsumed into region-states and companies follow the same set of 'best practices', adopt a convergent model of organisation that leads to a process of homogenisation in their behaviour and a deterioration of national management models (Rowley &...

Hq-subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Companies: a British-german Comparison

Transfer of Human Resource Management Practices within US Multinational Companies

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Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics 2000 Environmental Regulation, Multinational Companies and International Competitiveness Environmental Regulation, Multinational Companies and International Competitiveness

Concerns have been expressed that in a global market place with mobile capital, national governments will have incentives to set weak environmental policies (“environmental dumping”) to protect the international competitiveness of their domestic firms, that these incentives are particularly strong in industries where plants may be relatively footloose, so that governments are concerned to preve...