Working Lives Research Institute
Central and Eastern Europe’s experience of Foreign Direct Investment and Globalizing Employment Relations
Friday 1st July 2011, 2- 6 pm
London Metropolitan University, 31, Jewry St., London EC3N 2EY (Room 41)
(Aldgate, Aldgate East, Tower Hill tubes)
Seminar and Book Launch
Foreign Direct Investment and Globalising Employment Relations Seminar and Book Launch.pdf
14.00: Welcome: Steve Jefferys, Professor of European Employment Relations, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University.
14.10 - 15.30: FDI, Domestic Entry and Institutional Change in Central and Eastern Europe; Tomasz Mickiewicz, Professor of Comparative Economics, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies will present a paper based on his research into the role of institutions in transition economies, followed by a discussion.
15.30 – 16.00 Pause: coffee, tea, juice, wine, cake, nibbles.
16.00 – 18.00 Book Launch of Palgrave Macmillan’s latest study of changing employment relations in Central and Eastern Europe: ‘Globalizing Employment Relations: Multinational firms and Central and Eastern Europe Transitions’; Introduction to the volume by Dr Violaine Delteil followed by two round tables and questions and discussion with the Chapter authors.
16.05 – 16.50 Round table 1: FDI transfers and Central and Eastern Europe and differences between sectors
Dr Patrick Dieuaide (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris) (chair)
Professor Anthony Ferner (De Montfort University, Leicester)
Professor Steve Jefferys (WLRI London Metropolitan University)
Professor Jeno Koltay, (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
17.00 – 17.45 Round table 2: Social Models, Multinationals and host countries
Dr Sylvie Contrepois (WLRI, London Met University & CRESSPA-GTM, Paris) (chair)
Dr Linda Szabo (Central European University, Budapest)
Dr Anna Kwiatkiewicz (BPI Group, Poland)
Dr Violaine Delteil (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris)
RSVP Janet Emefo: j.emefo@londonmet.ac.uk
How has foreign investment helped transform the ten former Communist members of the European Union? What role have MNCs based in France, Germany and the US played in changing work and employment relations?
What impact have the European Social Model and European Works Councils had? Is foreign direct investment a new colonialism or a real boost to the region?
Globalizing Employment Relations provides answers to these and other questions in original chapters by the following authors:
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Part 1 : |
FDI transfers and Central and Eastern Europe |
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1. Anthony Ferner |
Exporting the American social model |
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2. Guglielmo Meardi, Franz Traxler and Sonja Strohmer |
MNC social transfers to Central and Eastern Europe |
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3. Steve Jefferys |
Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe |
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Part 2 : |
Employment relations in different sectors in Central and Eastern Europe |
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4. Sylvie Contrepois, Violaine Delteil, Patrick Dieuaide and Steve Jefferys |
Financial and auto sectors in the recession |
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5. Patrick Dieuaide |
Industrial culture and strategy in food processing |
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6. Martin Krzywdzinski |
Exporting the German automobile social model |
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Part 3 : |
Multinationals and host countries in the crisis |
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7. Jeno Koltay |
Hungary and the opening up to MNCs |
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8. Linda Szabo and Violetta Zentai |
French MNCs in Hungary |
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9. Zhelyu Vladimirov |
MNCs and Bulgarian employment relations |
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10. Anna Kwiatkiewicz |
Polish employment relations and FDI |
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11. Charles Woolfson, Janis Birzins and Epp Kallaste |
FDI and the crisis in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania |
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Part 4 : |
European social integration, MNCs and change |
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12. Sylvie Contrepois |
MNC approaches to international employment relations |
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13. Violaine Delteil |
Central and Eastern European employment relations models |
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14. Guy Groux |
Testing new forms of employment relations |
Working Lives Research Institute, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences,
London Metropolitan University, 31 Jewry St, London EC3N 2EY, UK
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