Organized Labor's Images of Multinational Enterprise
Divergent Foreign Investment Ideologies in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3563197 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mauro F Guillén (0000-0003-3517-7319, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 419 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2695967 |
| OpenAlex | W4251893738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 38 |
This paper conceptualizes how organized labor in newly industrialized countries both responds to and shapes the presence of foreign multinationals. Four images of multinationals-as "villains," "necessary evils," "arm's length collaborators," and "partners"-are documented and compared using evidence drawn from three countries during the 1950-99 period. Organized labor flatly opposed foreign multinationals early on, under authoritarian regimes, in all three countries-Argentina, South Korea, and Spain-but that stance shifted over time in divergent rather than convergent ways. In Argentina, organized labor alternately viewed multinationals as villains and as a necessary evil, and in Korea it deemed them fit for limited, arm's length collaboration. In Spain, by contrast, unions gradually shifted toward a willing acceptance of multinationals as partners. Organized labor's images of multinationals are found to have resulted from two key factors: democratic versus authoritarian political regimes, and modernizing versus populist labor union mentalities
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Economics · Economy · Foreign direct investment · Ideology · Investment (military) · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2018 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |