Der vielschichtige und dynamische Prozess der Globalisierung, der nicht zuletzt durch eine wachsende Zahl global agierender Konzerne und durch deren veränderte transnationale Strukturen und Strategien vorangetrieben wird, wirft die Frage nach der Entwicklung transnationaler Arbeitsbeziehungen...

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s - and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...

This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...