Impacts of decentralization - erosion or renewal? The decisive link link between workplace representation and company size in German and Danish industrial relations
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Impacts of decentralization - erosion or renewal? The decisive link link between workplace representation and company size in German and Danish industrial relations. / Ilsøe, Anna; Madsen, Jørgen Steen; Due, Jesper Jørgen.
I: Industrielle Beziehungen, Bind 14, Nr. 3, 2007, s. 201-222.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Impacts of decentralization - erosion or renewal?
T2 - The decisive link link between workplace representation and company size in German and Danish industrial relations
AU - Ilsøe, Anna
AU - Madsen, Jørgen Steen
AU - Due, Jesper Jørgen
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In recent decades Germany and Denmark have constituted survival areas for theclassical IR system in an era that has otherwise largely been characterised by the deregulation and disorganisation of industrial relations. From the mid-1990s onwards, however, it has to varying degrees been possible to observe erosive tendencies in these hitherto sturdy fortresses of “organised decentralisation”. It is the main thesis of this article that the dualistic German system makes it more difficult for the German parties to adapt the bargaining system so that their overall coordination can be preserved even though the required decentralisation is introduced. This thesis is investigated through an extensive comparison of the drivers, contexts and outcomes of decentralisation in Danish and German industry over the last 10-15 years. The article concludes that the single-channel representation system and the more homogeneous composition of company sizes in Denmark are core explanations why Denmark exhibits fewer erosive trends than Germanyand more signs of renewal in the development towards multi-level regulation.
AB - In recent decades Germany and Denmark have constituted survival areas for theclassical IR system in an era that has otherwise largely been characterised by the deregulation and disorganisation of industrial relations. From the mid-1990s onwards, however, it has to varying degrees been possible to observe erosive tendencies in these hitherto sturdy fortresses of “organised decentralisation”. It is the main thesis of this article that the dualistic German system makes it more difficult for the German parties to adapt the bargaining system so that their overall coordination can be preserved even though the required decentralisation is introduced. This thesis is investigated through an extensive comparison of the drivers, contexts and outcomes of decentralisation in Danish and German industry over the last 10-15 years. The article concludes that the single-channel representation system and the more homogeneous composition of company sizes in Denmark are core explanations why Denmark exhibits fewer erosive trends than Germanyand more signs of renewal in the development towards multi-level regulation.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 201
EP - 222
JO - Industrielle Beziehungen
JF - Industrielle Beziehungen
SN - 0943-2779
IS - 3
ER -
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