The article addresses the question whether or not the trend towards the decentralisation of collective bargaining on …

Collective bargaining in the German metal and electrical engineering (M+E) industries has undergone a phase of … considerable development since the 1990s. The profound changes which underwent collective bargaining in M+E over the last two … restructuring which shaped the bargaining agenda. This discussion paper examines these developments, putting a special focus on the …

. Because of the declining bargaining coverage, calls for a stabilisation of the collective bargaining system are increasing. In …

and fragmentation of collective bargaining as well - and more fundamentally - to a significant change in power relations …

these findings within a relational contracting model that critically focuses on changes in the bargaining power, due to …