Training activities in subsidiaries of foreign multinational companies: Local embeddedness in Germany?

The Evolution of Innovative Competencies in Subsidiaries of Multinational Companies

In order to better understand the competitiveness of companies and with this their surrounding regions, economic geographers have focused on competencies in manufacturing companies for more than two decades. This paper discusses the development of innovative competencies at plant level. Using subsidiaries of international automotive supply companies in Poland as an example, we analyze and typif...

Knowledge Management in Multinational Companies: The Repatriates’ Role in the Competitive Advantage in Subsidiaries

This paper addresses the topic of knowledge management in multinational companies (MNCs). Its purpose is to examine the role of expatriates in knowledge acquisition and transfer within MNCs. Specifically it focuses on knowledge acquisition and transfer from one MNC head office located in Germany to two Portuguese subsidiaries as a basis for competitive advantage in their Portuguese subsidiaries...

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The Configuration of Employee Retention Practices in Multinational Corporations’ Foreign Subsidiaries

This paper contributes to turnover research by deriving a typology of retention practices and investigating their applicability in multinational corporations’ (MNCs) foreign subsidiaries in the light of homeand host-country effects. Linking institutional and strategic HRM perspectives, the paper then proposes a conceptual framework examining how MNCs can maximize their retention capacity. Speci...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...