Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations

Introduction.- Part I: FDI Flows and Institutional Dynamics in Europe and Asia.- Part II: Redesigning of Public Policies to Meet Competitiveness and Attractiveness Challenges, while Dealing with Business Lobbying.- Part III: Multinational Companies across Home and Host Countries: Transfer, Hybridization, Adaptation of Business Model and Labour Relations?.- Part IV: Reshaping Industrial Relations and Labour Activism in Multinational Companies.

Xavier Richet is professor of economics at the University Sorbone nouvelle in Paris where he holds a Jean Monnet chair in European economic integration. He has extensively worked and published on post-transition economies both in Europe and China where he has directed several fields research projects. He currently teaches international business at the Sorbonne and in Chinese and East European universities.

Violaine Delteil is socio-economist, Associate Professor in the department of European Studies at Paris University Sorbonne Nouvelle and member of the Research Center ICEE (Integration and Cooperation in European Space). Her main research agenda deals with industrial relations and labor-management relations in Europe, and gives a particular focus to the european integration of the Centre and Eastern European Countries. She published in various national and european academic reviews and recently co-edited " Globalising Employment Relations? Multinational Corporations and Central and Eastern Europe Transitions " (2011, Palgrave Mac-Millan, Londres).

Patrick Dieuaide (Associate Professor, Research Center ICEE, Integration and Cooperation in European Space) is Associate Professor at Paris University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Dean of the Faculty of Institute of European Studies and pedagogical Director of the "European Studies" Research Masters. He has published numerous articles in the most French and European economic reviews concerning transformations of national labor-management relations in Europe. He recently published, in collaboration, a book on " Globalising Employment Relations? Multinational Corporations and Central and Eastern Europe Transitions " (2011, Palgrave Mac-Millan, Londres).