These models have been subject to significant criticism in Europe. Poole( 1990) wishes to add to the Beer et al. map ‘globalization’- the practice of multinational corporations including, centrally, the transfer of executives between countries ( Brewster1991)- power and strategic choice. Hendry and Pettigrew (1990) similarly start from the Beer et al. model and wish to amplify it to categorize the factors influencing strategic decision-making in HRM, under the headings of ‘economic’ ‘technical’ and ‘socio-political’. Under ‘economic’ they include ownership and control, organizational size and structure, the growth rate of an organization, industry structure and markets; under ‘technical’ they refer to skill, work organization and labour force requirements of technologies; ‘socio-political’ encompasses the institutional framework, particularly the national education and training system.