Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the relationships between working conditions, innovation activities and industrial relations in two local production systems located in the northern Italy, exploiting data collected through ad-hoc surveys in 2004 and 2006. Design/methodology/approach –...

Partendo dalla base di studi microeconomici sul comportamento delle imprese in termini di attività innovativa, il presente lavoro offre un’analisi empirica per un sistema produttivo locale (Ferrara) volta ad evidenziare la presenza di legami tra attività innovativa in differenti sfere e...

The paper aims to provide an original contribution to evaluating several kinds of relations between four areas of innovation activities - training, technology, organization, ICT (information and communication technologies) - and industrial relations and firm's economic performance. Quantitative...

L’accordo sulla produttività del 21 novembre 2012, induce preoccupazione e sconforto per quello che dice e per quello che non dice. Il testo non costituisce un passo avanti nelle relazioni industriali in tema di modello di regolazione del legame tra retribuzione del lavoratore e risultati...

Productivity and wages are stagnant, effective demand is in contraction, growth appears now as an illusion and we have also decline in bargaining. How to restore a "virtuos" path also re-thinking objectives and methods of collective bargaining. Can the proposal of a planned and bargained...

The shifting of labour demand toward relatively more skilled workers has been a hot issue in the economic field for many years. A consolidated explanation for the upskilling phenomenon is that technological-organisational changes have driven the labour demand with detrimental consequences for...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the link between flexible pay systems (FPS) and labor productivity, also looking at which factors drive firms to adopt such wage schemes. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is conducted on an original sample extracted from a firm-level survey...