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in scope has been particularly influential. Such taxonomies might be usefully refined to incorporate the salience of regional ec ...

considered in more depth by Arndt Sorge in Chapter 5, the organization of production and work within the enterprise is shaped by ...

systems place more emphasis on short-run financial performance, and adopt investment strategies which are driven by purely finan ...

and Spain. The parameters within which such enterprises function have differed from their private-sector counterparts: for insta ...

of models of management organization, product strategy, production organization and working practice has been observed amongst m ...

of the individual member states has been seen as a policy failure by many commentators. But, as Keith Sisson argues in Chapter 1 ...

Explicit European-level initiatives in the sphere of industrial relations remain unusual: a small number of MNCs have concluded ...

Box 18.3 European Works Councils Directive: key features adopted in September 1994 by the EU Council of Ministers under the soc ...

There are considerable sectoral differences in the ‘strike rate’ of agreements establishing EWCs compared to the number of MNCs ...

EWC agreements Part of Streeck’s argument is that in their basic structure EWCs will reflect nationally based structures for emp ...

German or Nordic-based companies. More stringent confidentiality clauses, enabling management to withhold potentially detrimenta ...

which, in contrasting ways, are no more than extensions of national systems. But under the third, the functioning of the EWC is ...

More recent evidence indicates that the mode of operation of EWCs may well be influenced more by the international nature of the ...

structure at European level, which provides a direct counterpart to the EWC, exists. Where there was ‘fit’ (Hoffmann et al., 200 ...

of internal organization and sector. The chapter has located the Eurocompany in economic, organizational and behavioural terms. ...

and terms and conditions consequent on particular aspects of restructuring at Ford and General Motors’ European operations, come ...

A collection of essays which illustrates the variety of enterprise forms characteristic of different European countries, the ext ...

EWCB (2001) ‘Vauxhall Job Cuts Controversy Continues’, European Works Council Bulletin 32 (March/April): 2. Ferner, A. (1994) ‘T ...

Marginson, P. and Sisson, K. (1994) ‘The Structure of Transnational Capital in Europe: the Emerging Euro-Company and its Implica ...

Stoop, S. and Donders, P. (1998) EOR-en in Functie.EOR Service, FNV, Rotterdam: FNV (English summary translated by P. Kerckhofs, ...