Employment relations in global production networks: Initiating transfer of practices via union involvement
研究了国际框架协议如何让全球工会联合会参与跨国公司的雇佣关系设计，并基于内容分析和访谈提出了全球生产网络中的实践转移模型，对国际人力资源管理和产业关系研究者有参考价值。
International Framework Agreements (IFAs) represent a still small but growing and particularly interesting contribution to the global regulation of employment relations. IFAs enable global union federations (GUFs) to become actively involved in co-designing employment relations within transnational corporations (TNCs) and their global production networks. Based upon theoretical insights into the challenges of transferring practices in and across organizations, we present and discuss a model of practice transfer for global production networks based on empirical data from a content analysis of IFAs and from interviews with representatives of TNCs, GUFs, and other experts. Our study contributes to an organizational theory of practice transfer. But more importantly, it aims at a better integration of IHRM and international industrial relations by looking more closely at the particular role of GUFs as external actors.