UEber die Bedeutung des Betriebsrates fuer die Mitgliederrekrutierung der deutschen Gewerkschaften herrscht Einigkeit. Sein Einfluss auf die Loyalitaetssicherung der bereits rekrutierten Mitglieder ist indessen nicht eindeutig. Die vorliegende Analyse schliesst diese Luecke. Empirische Grundlage...

Innovationen werden als wichtige Erfolgsstrategie fuer Unternehmen gesehen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch Aufgabe fuer Betriebsraete sein kann, langfristig die Innovationsstrategie der Unternehmen zu beeinflussen und die Innovationsbereitschaft der Beschaeftigten anzuregen. In diesem...

The Honda workers’ strike in 2010 attracted world wide attention. It was one of thousands of labor disputes that happen every year in China, but it was the first major calling for the right of workers to represent themselves in collective bargaining. The question of representation is therefore...

Based on a series of field surveys conducted among a cross-section of eight French MNCs located in three Central and Eastern European countries (Hungary, Slovakia, Romania) and present in three sectors of activity (energy, car industry, food-processing), the present paper offers some evidence...

The transition to a market driven development strategy in Latin America for over more than a decade has redefined business strategies and reshaped the state?s traditional role of guarantor of employment stability and protection. These changes, plus the move to create more flexible labor markets...

Against the background of a deep crisis in trade union representation, the authors seek to determine some possible starting points for a renewal of trade unions. The employees’ organisations are seen as actors who have a strategic choice as to which power resources to tap. Though the specific...

The article surveys the main actions, either defined by social partners or by government intervention, which have attempted to encourage firm-level bargaining decentralization in recent years. The overall structure and the relative importance of different levels of bargaining have not however...

This paper critically discusses the reasoning and the consequences of a recent parliamentary bill which intends to restore the traditional principle of one collective bargaining agreement per business in Germany that has been overturned by the Federal Labour Court. It argues that the empirical...

In December 2014, the German Federal Government adopted a draft law on the exclusive applicability of collective agreements – the so-called Tarifeinheitsgesetz. Critics see this as an unacceptable interference to the freedom of association. They point out, that despite multi-unionism you can...