A close investigation of the industrial relations in Britain and Germany reveals that there has occurred a clear divergence. But at the same time, a converging trend is also noticed. Regarding the latter, decentralization is gaining in power. This allows companies under certain conditions and to...

Interest has grown in the significance of the country-of-origin impact on the Employment Relations (ER) approaches in the international subsidiaries of Multinational Companies (MNCs). In this article, a comparative cross-sectional analysis of German subsidiaries with indigenous UK firms will be...

This article attempts to inquire what industrial relations (IR) is and analyzes the ways in which it has been defined and interpreted since its inception. Various scholars ranging from system theorists, pluralists, Marxists and neo- Marxists to the modern HR and strategic choice perspectives...

Airline industry restructuring proceeded in high gear following the 9/11 attacks, which triggered a global air transport crisis in the beginning of the new millennium. European (network) legacy carriers have been reorganizing to meet low-cost challengers in European and new competition in global...

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist ein interdisziplinaerer Beitrag zur persoenlichkeits- und kompetenzorientierten Entrepreneurship-Forschung. Im Fokus steht die Frage, ob die unternehmerische Persoenlichkeit im Rahmen einer Entrepreneurship Education zur ganzheitlichen Foerderung unternehmerischer...

This paper explores local union organising in the context of corporate mergers which have become increasingly common. Through a multiple case study of 14 cases between 1995 and 2002, we find that unions in eleven cases organise themselves unilaterally, locally and mainly around strategic and...

With the emergence of transnational corporations and the resulting internationalisation of union co-determination, unions are found to organise themselves ineffectively in order to deal with this development. This paper attempts to offer a preliminary explanation as to why unions organise...