– Seit 2000 ist eine kontinuierliche Zunahme europaeischer Unternehmensverhandlungen und -vereinbarungen zu Themen wie Chancengleichheit, Arbeitssicherheit, Umgang mit Unternehmensrestrukturierungen oder Gewinnbeteiligungen zu beobachten. Damit ist – so die Ausgangsthese dieses Beitrags –...

Der Aufsatz untersucht qualitativ-explorativ, auf welche Weise sich netzwerkfoermige Wertschoepfung und Mehr-Arbeitgeber-Beziehungen in der Facility Services-Branche auf die inter-gewerkschaftlichen Beziehungen auswirken. Mit Hilfe eines strukturationstheoretisch inspirierten Ansatzes...

This paper critically discusses the reasoning and the consequences of a recent parliamentary bill which intends to restore the traditional principle of one collective bargaining agreement per business in Germany that has been overturned by the Federal Labour Court. It argues that the empirical...

One basically has to welcome the plans of the German Government to legally clarify the questions arising from a collision of collective labour agreements caused by a revised jurisdiction. Companies need clear guidelines on how to handle the demands of several trade unions. Reciprocally, the...

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice - especially union-only voice - has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and,...

This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social representations, norms, conventions, legislation, and organisations). The observed institutional...