Cross-Border Staff Mobility in German and Mexican Non-Profit Organisations

Adick, Christel; Gandlgruber, Bruno; Maletzky, Martina; Pries, Ludger

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“…We hence generated a dummy variable (SUBAUG) to code this subsidiary augmentation vs. exploitation pattern (1 = subsidiaries have evaluated the production of differentiated products for regional or global markets applying subsidiary-level knowledge as their only or predominant role; and 0 = subsidiaries have evaluated the provision of goods that are part of the MNC product range and/or the production of component parts using knowledge that is already well-established in the MNC group as their only or predominant role). Apart from subsidiary role effects, the MNC country of origin may possibly explain some patterns of MNC value-added employee international assignments (Adick et al 2014). Three different groups were distinguished: EU countries, other European countries (OTHER EUROPEAN) and countries from the rest of world (RoW).…”

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How do MNC R&D Laboratory Roles Affect Employee International Assignments?

2016

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Research and development (R&D) employees are important human resources for multinational corporations (MNCs) as they are the driving force behind the advancement of innovative ideas and products. International assignments of these employees can be a unique way to upgrade their expertise; allowing them to effectively recombine their unique human resources to progress existing knowledge and advance new ones. This study aims to investigate the effect of the roles of R&D laboratories in which these employees work on the international assignments they undertake. We categorise R&D laboratory roles into those of the support laboratory, the locally integrated laboratory and the internationally interdependent laboratory. Based on the theory of resource recombinations, we hypothesise that R&D employees in support laboratories are not likely to assume international assignments, whereas those in locally integrated and internationally interdependent laboratories are likely to assume international assignments. The empirical evidence, which draws from research conducted on 559 professionals in 66 MNC subsidiaries based in Greece, provides support to our hypotheses. The resource recombinations theory that extends the resource based view can effectively illuminate the international assignment field. Also, research may provide more emphasis on the close work context of R&D scientists rather than analyse their demographic characteristics, the latter being the focus of scholarly practice hitherto.

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2016

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“…At the same time, the German economy is strongly globalised and export oriented. Experiences abroad have become a priority in the educational system but also for the labour market where the international mobility of workers plays an important role for the prosperity and innovation of German companies (Adick et al 2014;Lauterbach et al 2017). Surrounded by European member states, the European Union defines an institutional framework of free movement which governs a large fraction of German emigration (Recchi 2015;Boswell and Geddes 2011).…”

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Between Origin and Destination: German Migrants and the Individual Consequences of Their Global Lives

Erlinghagen

Ette

Schneider

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IMISCOE Research Series

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During the twentieth century, international migration was mainly understood as immigration into economically highly developed welfare states. This has changed over the course of recent decades because these countries are meanwhile also understood as important sources of international mobility. Whereas international mobility experiences have potentially far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances, migration studies have only little experience in analysing international migration from those economically highly developed welfare states. This introduction frames the chapters in this volume that contribute to fill this gap by examining the individual consequences of global lives not only as a question of migrants’ integration into receiving societies (destination). Rather, the consequences of international mobility are also studied by comparing migrants with the non-mobile population of the country of origin (origin) and as results of specific trajectories (migration) in individual life courses during the migration process (Destination-Origin-Migration Approach). The introduction also provides an overview of how this approach is utilised by the different chapters of the book, all based on the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS), which provides a comprehensive empirical basis for studying the consequences of international migration along four dimensions of the life course: employment and social mobility, partner and family, wellbeing and health, as well as friends and social integration.

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“…While these terms are often used quasi-synonymously and all seem to appeal to third sector or civil society actors, the terms remain blurred to a certain extent (cf. Adick, Hahm & Weiler, 2014): 'Non-governmental' alludes to voluntary, philanthropic associations but in principle might also include 'private' economic organisations. Commercial activities are 'private' (non-state) sector in any case, if for profit; but they may also lack a profit-orientation, while still being commercial in that they operate in a market under conditions of competition financed by (however small) fees which have to be paid by the 'clients'.…”

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Transnational education in schools, universities, and beyond: Definitions and research areas

Adick

2018

Transnational Social Review

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The article is directed to theorizing Transnational Education (TNE). This entails definitions of what is meant by transnational and by education. It also focuses a variety of social realities which might be classified as TNE. The main aim of the article is to sharpen TNE as an analytical concept and at the same time broaden the horizon on the range of actors who are involved in TNE within different sectors of education epitomised as schools, universities, and beyond. It is posited that for research it is not only essential to have a clear view of what is considered as transnational, but also to take into account which sectors of education shall be addressed. This leads to questions of legitimacy and governance, because: who defines, controls, and regulates TNE? Here the theoretical crushing point is the relation of TNE to the sovereignty principle of national education policy. In the first part of the article TNE is defined and conceptualised, whereas in the second part the three TNE research areas announced in the title are characterised.

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Cross-Border Staff Mobility in German and Mexican Non-Profit Organisations

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How do MNC R&D Laboratory Roles Affect Employee International Assignments?

How do MNC R&D Laboratory Roles Affect Employee International Assignments?

Between Origin and Destination: German Migrants and the Individual Consequences of Their Global Lives

Transnational education in schools, universities, and beyond: Definitions and research areas

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