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and externalised, are often referred to as ‘global commodity chains’ (Gereffi, 1999). Another set of examples of firms which hav ...

for instance, found that the parent company’s insistence that the plant operate the system termed ‘High Involvement Management’ ...

in one part of the firm able to be implemented in another, and combine this strategy with establishing competitive relations bet ...

union representatives. The dual system of unions and works committees had to be confronted by GM’s managers in attempting to imp ...

were reluctant to engage in job rotation if this meant moving to less desirable jobs, which could also result in a loss of statu ...

policies on employment practice within many MNCs is a key factor in the convergence of national systems. Cases such as the move ...

This article provides a more comprehensive description of the four influences framework than does this chapter. It also illustra ...

Companies and Emerging Workplace Issues: Practice, Outcomes and Policy’, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1–3 April. Edwards ...

Ortiz, L. (1998) ‘Unions’ Response to Teamwork: The Case of Opel Spain’, Industrial Relations Journal, 29, 1, 42–57. O’Sullivan, ...

16 Varieties of Capitalism, National Industrial Relations Systems and Transnational Challenges Richard Hyman 1 Introduction 411 ...

employment relationship and the institutional context within which they operate. The discussion in the next section focuses on e ...

private ownership co-exists with varying degrees of public ownership and state regulation; wage-labour co-exists with self-empl ...

former, companies obtain a large proportion of their finance from the stock market; company law prescribes that directors are pr ...

treatment. Nevertheless, there is some basis for speaking of national ‘models’ of work organisation. For example, property regim ...

a key role within the welfare system (for French or Italian trade unions, indeed, this function may be more important than colle ...

‘mainstreamed’ within industrial relations, rather than treated as subsidiary (and perhaps irrelevant?). Undoubtedly there are i ...

individuals or as members of collectives which shape their interests and options. One element in this broad distinction between ...

for attempts to redefine the terms of a social or economic relationship. In his model, an aggrieved customer, employee or member ...

individual employer considerable discretion over whether and how to negotiate; but in many countries, multi-employer bargaining ...

again, the link with Albert’s identification of two contrasting models of capitalism should be obvious. 4 THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MO ...