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Overview

Tony Edwards is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. The primary focus of their research lies within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Strategy and Management, Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Business and International Management, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Edwards has contributed to research on a range of topics, with frequent examination of International Student and Expatriate Challenges, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Innovation and Knowledge Management, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Family Business Performance and Succession, and Gender Diversity and Inequality.

The researcher's recent publications include:

  • Whither national subsidiaries? The need to refocus international management research on structures and processes that matter (2021), Journal of International Business Studies
  • International human resource management in multinational companies: Global norm making within strategic action fields (2021), Human Resource Management Journal
  • The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm (2022), International Business Review
  • Stakeholder engagement strategies for impactful corporate social innovation initiatives by multinational enterprises (2024), Journal of International Management
  • Global norm-making processes in contemporary multinationals (2021), Human Resource Management Journal

Frequent coauthors of Tony Edwards include Philipp Kern, Olga Tregaskis, Ling Eleanor Zhang, Kyoungmi Kim, and Ayse Saka-Helmhout.

The main venues where Edwards' research has been published are the Journal of International Business Studies, International Business Review, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of International Management, and Management International Review.

Best Publications

  • International HRM: national business systems, organizational politics and the international division of labour in MNCs

    Tony Edwards;Sarosh Kuruvilla

  • Dynamics of Central Control and Subsidiary Autonomy in the Management of Human Resources: Case-Study Evidence from US MNCs in the UK

    Anthony Ferner;Phil Almond;Ian Clark;Trevor Colling

  • Unraveling home and host country effects: an investigation of the HR policies of an American multinational in four European countries

    Phil Almond;Tony Edwards;Trevor Colling;Anthony Ferner

  • Power, institutions and the cross-national transfer of employment practices in multinationals

    Anthony Ferner;Tony Edwards;Anne Tempel

  • Conceptual approaches to the transfer of employment practices in multinational companies: an integrated approach

    Tony Edwards;Trevor Colling;Anthony Ferner

  • International Human Resource Management: Globalization, National Systems and Multinational Companies

    Tony Edwards;Chris Rees

  • The renewed ‘American Challenge’: a review of employment practice in US multinationals

    Tony Edwards;Anthony Ferner

  • Subsidiary responses to institutional duality: Collective representation practices of US multinationals in Britain and Germany

    Anne Tempel;Tony Edwards;Anthony Ferner;Michael Muller-Camen

  • American Multinationals in Europe.

    A Ferner;P Almond;P Butler;I Clark

  • Multinationals, Reverse Diffusion and National Business Systems

    Tony Edwards;Anthony Ferner

  • Reverse Diffusion in US Multinationals: Barriers from the American Business System

    Tony Edwards;Phil Almond;Ian Clark;Trevor Colling

  • Multinationals, labour management and the process of reverse diffusion: A case study

    Tony Edwards

  • Structure, Politics and the Diffusion of Employment Practices in Multinationals

    Tony Edwards;Chris Rees;Xavier Coller

  • Employee Responses to Changing Aspects of the Employer Brand Following a Multinational Acquisition: A Longitudinal Study

    Martin R. Edwards;Tony Edwards

  • Global Standardization or National Differentiation of HRM Practices in Multinational Companies?: A Comparison of Multinationals in Five Countries

    Tony Edwards;Rocío Sánchez-Mangas;Patrice Jalette;Jonathan Lavelle

  • HRM structures and subsidiary discretion in foreign multinationals in the UK

    Anthony Ferner;Olga Tregaskis;Paul Edwards;Tony Edwards

  • Multinational companies in cross-national context: Integration, differentiation, and the interactions between MNCs and Nation States

    Tony J Edwards;Paul Marginson;Anthony Ferner

  • The erosion of the country of origin effect: a case study of a Swedish multinational company

    Annette Hayden;Tony Edwards

  • Policies on Union Representation in US Multinationals in the UK: Between Micro‐Politics and Macro‐Institutions

    Anthony Ferner;Phil Almond;Trevor Colling;Tony Edwards

  • Multinationals and changing national business systems in Europe: towards the 'shareholder value' model?

    Phil Almond;Tony Edwards;Ian Clark

  • Global Standardization or National Differentiation of HRM Practices in Multinational Companies?: A Comparison of Multinationals in Five Countries

    Tony Edwards;Jonathan Lavelle;Dana Minbaeva;Rocio Sanchez-Mangas

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Ferner
Anthony Ferner University of Sussex
Paul Edwards
Paul Edwards University of Birmingham
Timothy Bartram
Timothy Bartram RMIT University
Patrick Gunnigle
Patrick Gunnigle University of Limerick
Lucio Baccaro
Lucio Baccaro Max Planck Society
Dana Minbaeva
Dana Minbaeva King's College London
David G. Collings
David G. Collings Trinity College Dublin
William A. V. Clark
William A. V. Clark University of California, Los Angeles
Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson University of Leeds

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