Whether all parties to the employment relationship benefit from workplace partnership and with what consequences is one … qualitative case study data, the paper queries the prevailing view that it is possible to categorise partnership outcomes as …’ perception of the distribution of partnership gains for their orientation to their employer and union, and in regard to their …

the institutions of social partnership and the use of conciliation. …

The existing British partnership literature is notoriously polarised. Two main streams ofresearch have emerged. Early … empirical work focused upon trade union representative capacityoutcomes, in other words does partnership represent a threat or … dangerous strategy for trade unions. More recent empirical work has focusedupon the extent to which partnership offers mutual …