manufacturers. Design/methodology/approach ? The research is based on interviews with industrial actors in Germany?s car industry … production. While German managers act at an enterprise level, a structural force has been responsible for the success of Germany …?s post-WW II manufacturing. Germany?s collective bargaining structure removed wage and working-time bargaining from local …

sought to attract previously outsourced HRM functions back to Germany. A case study of such a newly established firm, called … based on an empirical study of Germany's commercial shipping industry. …