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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a new typology to leverage the different knowledge gaps existing between universities and industries. This new typology classifies interactions into training-oriented, diffusion-oriented, service-oriented, development-oriented, and...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the changing strike activity in the UK over the last … 50 years. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a wide literature on UK strikes and an extensive trawl of … study of the changing nature of UK strikes over such a long time period.  …
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Changes are taking place in collective bargaining arrangements and management structures for industrial relations. The Warwick Survey, confirming the findings of previous research, shows that the apparent moves towards the decentralisation of industrial relations are in practice more complex...
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Decentralisation of pay bargaining in the UK is well known. Other countries in Europe have not gone so far but a clear …
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Decentralization of pay bargaining in the UK is well known. Other countries in Europe have not gone so far but a clear … trend towards decentralization is perceptible, although national or industry‐wide bargaining is still widely used. There is …
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Analyses the role of accounting data in collective bargaining in ot‐for‐profit organizations in four Canadian cases. Develops a model upon the constructs of “employer equivocality” and “union heterogeneity” to provide useful insights. Where employer equivocality is low and union...
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to understand better how specific conditions such as the degree of trust developed from previous negotiations, the level of expertise/style demonstrated by the negotiators, the clarity of the bargaining issues and the ability of facilitators to use...
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The scope and extent of collective bargaining over technological change in Canada is analysed. The public policy … context in Canada is compared with that of the United States. Data on collective agreement provisions regarding notice of …
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On both sides of the Atlantic, there is much talk amongst academics and practitioners about the “new” industrial relations, based on flexibility, employee involvement, anti‐union strategies and Japanese employment practices. However, the “old” industrial relations lives on; it is...
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Public sector bargaining in Canadian labour relations, placed in the wider context of the federal political system, is examined. The development of public sector trade unionism over the past two decades is discussed and its impact on the wider labour movements is assessed. It is argued that the...
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