Transnational transfer of lean production to a dependent market economy: The case of a French-owned subsidiary in Romania

Mihaly, Zoltan M.

doi:10.1177/0959680120986781

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“…Up to now studies of multi-nationals in the new market economies have focused on vehicle assembly plants where the companies' attempts to impose "lean production" on cheap workforces have led to resentment and resistance (see Mihaly, 2021). However, the new market economies are emerging in a post-industrial era in which most employment is in service sectors, Inward investors include retail and investment banks, international accountancy firms, and IT giants such as Facebook, Google and Amazon.…”

Section: Dependent Market Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Europe’s Former Communist States Have Added More Variety without Extending the Range of Variation in the Continent’s Education-to-Work Transitions

Roberts¹

2023

AASoci

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Europe's family of diverse education-to-work transition regimes has been able to enlarge eastwards without adding to the range of variation. Former communist states have been able to restart their pre-communist educational histories without difficulty. This is largely on account of the pivotal position of academic secondary schools throughout the continent. This position was established prior to, and continued under communism. The schools were able to preserve their country-specific titles and qualifications, and also ages of entry for pupils which always depended on a test of academic ability. The schools had already become and remained their countries' principal routes towards careers in the professions and management, and also in the public services and administration that were enlarged everywhere as countries industrialised and modernised, and as access to academic schools was opened to all the talents, not just children whose families were able to pay. Since the collapse of communism, the proportions of children receiving an academic secondary education then enrolling in their countries' universities, have expanded across the continent, east and west, north and south. The extent of this expansion has depended on the career prospects associated with alternative routes forward in secondary education and training. These alternatives are sometimes, but always misleadingly, all called "vocational". However, their attractions and repulsions always depend on the severity of any "sideling", and the strength of the "safety-nets" that the alternatives offer. In these respects, the new EU member states exhibit the same range of variation as found among older EU members, but with one importance difference. All types of employment within their own countries towards which youth in the new member states can head are much lower-paid, and the gap is not closing.

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Section: Dependent Market Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Europe’s Former Communist States Have Added More Variety without Extending the Range of Variation in the Continent’s Education-to-Work Transitions

Roberts¹

2023

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“…We can reject the possibility that crude East-West differences in prices and pay reflect differences in composition or mixes of employment in different industries, with the East having larger shares of employment in low-paid agricultural jobs, for example. Workers in car assembly plants in the East are paid far less than those doing similar jobs in Germany, Belgium and France (Mihaly 2021).…”

Section: Europe United?mentioning

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Education-to-Work Transitions in Former Communist Countries after 30-Plus Years of Transformation

Roberts,

Pantea,

Dabija

2023

Social Sciences

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This paper reviews how young people’s education-to-work transitions have changed since 1989 in former communist countries that have subsequently become full members of the European Union (EU). The sudden collapse of the command economies led to an equally abrupt breakdown in earlier routes into working life. Subsequently, the new independent states have reconstructed their education and training, and their market economies have developed. They now exhibit similar variations in rates of youth unemployment, progression through higher education, and mixtures of academic and vocational secondary education as older EU member states. However, there are features that continue to set all ex-communist countries apart, irrespective of whether they have become full EU members. These are low local rates of pay and westward migration. Its new member states have joined the Southern countries in a European periphery. Yet, there may be sufficient winners in the European core and periphery to keep Europe united.

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“…Furthermore, even though Zhu and Morgan's (2018) critique of worker depictions in certain writings is justified (for example, Bair and Werner, 2015), in deregulated contexts, employee agency can be severely limited. Describing employees as 'objects' is arguably warranted in unfavourable circumstances from a legal point of view, coupled with a lack of local job opportunities or meaningful income alternatives (Mihaly, 2015;2021).…”

Section: Context-dependence and Mnc Transfer Practicesmentioning

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Centralised Multi-National Practices of Transfer and Managerial Discrepancies: Evidence from a Romanian Call Center

Mihaly

2021

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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This paper describes workplace dynamics in a call centre located in Romania, a subsidiary of a multi-national corporation (MNC). Positing a centralised practice transfer and global management strategy, the company relies exclusively on home-country decision makers. Placed within Romania’s dependent economic profile alongside its deregulated employment relations, centralised managerial decisions create widespread organisational uncertainty with numerous hire and fire and downsizing procedures, followed by subsequent recruitment campaigns designed to replace the previously displaced workforce.

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Transnational transfer of lean production to a dependent market economy: The case of a French-owned subsidiary in Romania

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

How Europe’s Former Communist States Have Added More Variety without Extending the Range of Variation in the Continent’s Education-to-Work Transitions

How Europe’s Former Communist States Have Added More Variety without Extending the Range of Variation in the Continent’s Education-to-Work Transitions

Education-to-Work Transitions in Former Communist Countries after 30-Plus Years of Transformation

Centralised Multi-National Practices of Transfer and Managerial Discrepancies: Evidence from a Romanian Call Center

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