Das deutsche Tarifsystem – eine Kurzdarstellung -- Die gesetzliche Tarifeinheit -- Auswirkungen des Tarifeinheitsgesetzes auf die Anwendung von Tarifverträgen -- Beurteilung der gesetzlichen Tarifeinheit nach dem Mehrheitsprinzip.

Offering a critical assessment of the main conceptual debates concerning labour management partnership and cooperation at the workplace, this book evaluates the search for positive employment relations in five countries. The provision of collective employee representation, normally through trade...

This book broadens the research on the underworld of precarious and not-represented workers, through a selection of original case studies from across the globe written by leading experts. The book unveils the working conditions affecting this vast labour force that is so important to capital...

The book attempts to examine whether trade unions in Japan contributed to raising wages, productivity and firm's performance. In the western world trade unions are often regarded as organizations which prevent firms from performing well. The Japanese case may be different from Europe and North...

Inventory Management in Multi-Echelon Networks presents methods to plan inventory in distribution networks. By holistically looking at the supply chain, it shows how safety stocks across all echelons can be optimized if inventory of all levels is taken into consideration. The gap between the...

Das Auto der Zukunft ist vernetzt und Teil des Internet of Things. Fahrzeughersteller, Telekommunikationsanbieter und IT-Riesen liefern sich eine Schlacht um die Hoheit im Connected Car. Dieses Buch zeigt die Potenziale von Autos mit Konnektivitätstechnologien für digitale Dienstleistungen,...

Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from theoretical and empirical findings in innovation...