Although this thesis has made the first step in filling the gap we identified in the literature, there is still further research to be made, among other things due to the implications outlined in the previous section. As mentioned, we suggest that the implications of legal and ethical aspects of HCA projects should be explored even further. This could be done by conducting a larger multi-case study, in which e.g. the HCA projects of a representative population of European companies could be investigated in relation to how they view the legal and ethical responsibilities towards their employees.
An aspect that has been lacking from this research is the view of the employees. Further research should, therefore, also investigate the perceptions of the legal and ethical implications by the employees in companies that have HCA projects. By investigating this view, it would be possible to more eloquently determine whether HCA projects cause harm for employees. Determining this furthermore means that it would be possible to make a comparison between which activities employees see as harmful, and which activities are seen as harmful from management or the HCA departments themselves.
As mentioned, this thesis moreover set out to investigate HCA in the context of the MNC.
Although the finding in this research was that the context did not play the same role as we assumed, diving deeper into this aspect could be interesting. In this thesis, we only saw this from the Danish HQ point of view, meaning that the information the findings are based on is very one-sided. To further investigate this, one could explore several different business units of an MNC to see how they view HCA projects and couple this with a cultural analysis, using e.g. the theory of Hofstede as a starting point as well as the plethora of literature that exists on HQ-subunit relationships.
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