posted on 2017-03-16, 09:21authored byPatrick Gunnigle, Valeria Pulignano, Tony Edwards, María Jesús Belizón, Steen Navrbjerg, Olsen Karen M, Naverra Lourdes
This paper has three principal aims. It firstly provides some theoretical background on
the key current research issues and challenges in regard to industrial relations in multinational
companies. It then presents a concise review of scholarship to date on industrial
relations in multinational companies using INTREPID (Investigation of Transnationals Employment Practices: an International Database) data. Finally, the paper identifies some of
the main industrial relations issues that remain to be addressed, in effect charting a form
of research agenda for future work using the INTREPID data, with particular focus on
the potential contribution from ‘late joiners’ to the INTREPID project.