IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-38886-6_17.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

How Migration Enhanced a Mexican MNC’s Socially Embedded Capability

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Migration in International Business

Author

Listed:
  • Anabella Davila

    (Tecnologico de Monterrey)

Abstract

This chapter aims to understand how migration enhanced the global capability in the social embeddedness of a Mexican MNC. The case builds on today’s Mexican contextual challenges of a massive migration flow of low-skilled migrants and refugees and the pressures of the United States to adopt the characteristics of a ‘safe third country.’ The case discussed in this chapter is about FEMSA, a Mexican MNC which operates in 13 countries. FEMSA enhanced its global capability in social embeddedness by hiring refugees as part of its diversity and inclusion policy. Through the company’s CSR and sustainability reports analysis, micro-level processes and structures emerged to build its diversity policy. The internationalization processes made the company adopt global standards on diversity issues and train employees to receive a diverse workforce. The company introduced a new structure for human resources practices, such as complaints systems, verification and audit mechanisms, and a diversity governance committee. The diversity policy evolved through processes and structures within the firm serving the company to respond to the contextual challenges of migration and enhance its social embeddedness capability.

Suggested Citation

  • Anabella Davila, 2023. "How Migration Enhanced a Mexican MNC’s Socially Embedded Capability," Springer Books, in: Audra I. Mockaitis (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Migration in International Business, chapter 17, pages 385-405, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-38886-6_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38886-6_17
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-38886-6_17. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.