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evaluation culture’ (Goetschy, 2001). The idea of an EU employment strategy dates back to the Delors White Paper on Growth, Comp ...

representative employers’ organizations willing to negotiate is regarded as the dominant factor, the sector social dialogue has ...

The Euro-company dimension As the next chapter by Paul Marginson describes in greater detail, there have also been significant d ...

bargaining arrangements giving management greater scope to negotiate working and employment practices appropriate to the circums ...

the national economy as an environment for business and investment (Martin, 1998; Schulten, 2001). Equally, however, they can be ...

collective bargaining. As well as taking over some of the legislative functionof the state, collective bargaining has been given ...

expected to take the initiative in formulating claims and demands, while management is largely reactive. This reflects the mutua ...

decision making can be profoundly important, helping to explain why managers seek the agreement of employee representatives. In ...

between and within countries. Differences between sectors are inextricably bound up with industrial structure and industrial rel ...

focus of pioneering initiatives in bargaining co-ordination on the part of trade unions. An implication is that European co-ordi ...

negotiations (Hancké, 2000). Amongst employers, the organizations responsible for sector-level negotiations are strongly opposed ...

5 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1 Why do you think most EU member states insisted on the principle of sub- sidiarity in matters of social ...

Delors, J. (1993) White Paper on Growth, Cimpetitiveness, and Employment: The Challenges and Ways Forward into the Twenty-first ...

Keller, B. and Sörries, B. (1998) ‘The sectoral social dialogue and European social policy: more fantasy, fewer facts’, European ...

Walton, R.E. and McKersie, R.B. (1965) A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations.New York: McGraw-Hill. Wedderburn, Lord W. (199 ...

18 The Eurocompany and European Works Councils Paul Marginson 1 Introduction 457 2 The Eurocompany differentiated from wider, gl ...

particular societies in which they originated (Ohmae, 1990). Others, however, contend that whilst the scope of corporate activit ...

instances pronounced, influence on the structure and functioning of EWCs of factors which transcend national borders. It thereby ...

each of these poles are significantly more intense than those between the three poles (Dicken, 1998; Rugman, 2000). This regiona ...

mid-1980s in anticipation of the single market, which peaked in 1990, a growing proportion of which were cross-border in scope ( ...