Using firm-, industry-, and country-level data, we document a link between family ownership and labour relations. Across countries, we find that family ownership is relatively more prevalent in countries in which labour relations are difficult, consistent with firm-level evidence suggesting that...

What drove social conflict in Spain’s industrial areas in the period before the Spanish Civil War? This paper is concerned with contrasting the determinants of working-class conflict in northern Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Our hypothesis is that the key determinant of...

The Greek industrial relations system for the past decades, mainly in the private sector, has been based on Law 1876 of 1990, which introduced free collective bargaining and independent dispute resolution. Due to the financial crisis, new legislation modified the existing legal framework and led...

This article investigates the transformations of the French unionism and of the French system of industrial relations over the last years and their probable future. It shows: an evolution from a militant unionism to a professionalized trade unionist system; the decline of collective actions; the...

This paper examines the relationship between family ownership and the quality of labor relations. We find that family ownership is more prevalent in countries in which labor relations are hostile, consistent with the notion that family firms are particularly effective at coping with difficult...

Iceland has high living standards, low poverty, high inclusiveness and one of the most sustainable pension systems. It is the most highly unionised country in the OECD and, in the past, successful social pacts have protected the lowest paid workers during crises, and on occasion helped fight...

– Seit 2000 ist eine kontinuierliche Zunahme europaeischer Unternehmensverhandlungen und -vereinbarungen zu Themen wie Chancengleichheit, Arbeitssicherheit, Umgang mit Unternehmensrestrukturierungen oder Gewinnbeteiligungen zu beobachten. Damit ist – so die Ausgangsthese dieses Beitrags –...

Der Aufsatz untersucht qualitativ-explorativ, auf welche Weise sich netzwerkfoermige Wertschoepfung und Mehr-Arbeitgeber-Beziehungen in der Facility Services-Branche auf die inter-gewerkschaftlichen Beziehungen auswirken. Mit Hilfe eines strukturationstheoretisch inspirierten Ansatzes...