Purpose – The article aims to explore the link between corporate crises and decisions about employee participation in the context of the global financial crisis (GFC). Design/methodology/approach – The authors complement Weick's sensemaking perspective with some distinctions taken from...

Using German establishment data, this study provides the first econometric analysis on the interaction of establishment-level codetermination and foreign owners. Works councils are associated with higher productivity in domestic-owned establishments while they are associated with lower...

Jon Elster has a clear view of the role of norms and impartiality in collective decision making processes, but does not ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how can private desires be the causes of the same...

Abstract: Starting from an analysis of two pending cases before the ECJ ( Laval and Viking case), the paper focuses on the issue of the scope and significance the EU intends to accord to collective actions within the dynamics of European integration. In the first part of the paper the author...

Im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts waren die Kollektivverhandlungsstrukturen in Großbritannien einem beträchtlichen Wandel unterworfen. Während die Bedeutung kollektiver Verhandlungen bis Ende der 70er Jahre zugenommen hat, ist der Deckungsgrad kollektiver Verhandlungen seit 1980 drastisch...

The wage curve identified by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) postulates that the wage level is a decreasing function of the regional unemployment rate. In testing this hypothesis, most empirical studies have not taken into account that differences in the institutional framework may have an impact...

The purpose of this document is to build a methodology for the analysis of the Labor Relations Systems considering the specificity of the region. It includes the system profile and its interactions with the social, economic and political context.