130200 20241125101144.0 doi 10.1080/09585192.2023.2254207 sideral 135170 ART-2023-135170 eng Bretos, Ignacio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-4941-2028 The politics of selective and differential transfer of HRM practices in employee-owned MNCs: evidence from an emblematic European worker co-op 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper examines the cross-national transfer of HRM practices at Up Group, an emblematic French multinational worker co-op. Our findings reveal that stakeholder pressure to disseminate the co-op’s core HRM practices to its foreign subsidiaries triggered two key strategic responses from the HQ member-owners: transfer circumvention and ceremonial transfer. Therefore, our study provides new insights into the political and contested nature of practice transfer by elucidating how MNCs actively engage in the selective and differential transfer of some of their core HRM practices to protect the HQ actors’ interests and preserve their position of power vis-à-vis the subsidiaries. In addition, our fine-grained analysis of the ceremonially transferred practices contributes to the literature on practice variation during diffusion processes in MNCs. Finally, by examining the challenges of the cross-national management of people in multinational worker co-ops, an increasingly important global player, this study addresses critical management scholars’ calls to broaden the horizons of IHRM research beyond the hegemonic analysis of for-profit shareholder-owned MNCs. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S28-20R info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess by-nc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ 4.9 2023 MANAGEMENT 85 / 407 = 0.209 2023 Q1 T1 2.078 2023 Business and International Management 2023 Q1 Industrial Relations 2023 Q1 Strategy and Management 2023 Q1 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 2023 Q1 Management of Technology and Innovation 2023 Q1 11.7 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Errasti, Anjel Soetens, Aurélie 4012 650 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Direcc.Organiza.Empresas Área Organización de Empresas (2023), 1-35 Int. j. hum. resour. manag. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 0958-5192 719806 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130200/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-04-01 1954044 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130200/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2025-04-01 oai:zaguan.unizar.es:130200 articulos driver 2024-11-22-12:03:57 ARTICLE