These paper presents concisely how managers deal whit work relations, strategies and managerial stiles used and also the factors which influence the choise of all these. A part of the papers presents also a explanation for the let-down of the collective work relations and the development of...

French Abstract: Dans sa première partie, cet article rappelle le contexte historique, juridique, politique et culturel qui a façonné, jusqu’à ce jour, la tradition française de dialogue social. À partir des résultats d’une enquête quantitative en ligne et d’une série...

The interest of the internal contracting resides certainly in its use like instrument of administrative and financial regulation of the health, social and medico-social establishments, because it constitutes an element of technical and financial viability of a health mutual, but more still as a...

The labor relations seem to be from now on considered as an dominant institutional form while fordism was the specific regulation mode, historically located. The Thesis supported in this paper argues a different position: the labor relations are always a central institutional form, whatever the...

The long-term equilibrium unemployment rate has returned to the center of the economic debate in France. It derives from two macroeconomic equations. Wages are the result of wage bargaining on the labor market (wage-setting equation) and firms set the corresponding level of employment...

(VF)Cet article vise à éclairer et instruire le défi lancé aux institutions dans le champ syndical français. Les concepts néo-institutionnels sont mobilisés pour analyser ce processus du point de vue des stratégies des acteurs plutôt que de leurs effets immédiats sur le champ. Le cas...

(VF)Cet article expose les principaux résultats d’une étude consacrée au lien entre la présence syndicale et la performance économique et financière des entreprises en France. À partir d’un échantillon de 2 831 établissements français du secteur privé, issu de l’enquête REPONSE...

Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author argues that a structural measure of labour productivity,...

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if appropriate organizational structures are in place. This article by Surendra Gera of Industry Canada and Wulong Gu of Statistics Canada provides Canadian evidence to support this view....