Employee Representation in Multinational Companies
Employee Representation in Multinational Companies
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跨国公司的员工代表
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-97559-7
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发表时间:
2019
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Rosenbohm
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作者:
Haipeter;Hertwig;Rosenbohm
Over the past two decades, the multi-level architecture of transnational industrial relations has become a commonsense concept in industrial relations research, its institutions and associations, and also in policy and politics. Previous research strongly suggests that the practice and outcome of industrial relations are highly dependent on the interplay of the many types of representative actors, institutions, and procedures. Articulating employee interests vis-à-vis management, in the traditional sense of the term, is shaped by the ‘articulation’established between different elements within the multi-level framework. This book highlights articulation in the latter sense. It deals, firstly, with the interplay between transnational and national levels of employee representation in multinational companies (MNCs), and, secondly, with the question of how articulation affects representational outcomes. While European Works Councils (EWCs) have become acknowledged as pivotal institutions in the multi-level architecture of industrial relations in Europe, our study seeks to extend the scope of research in this area to encompass national and local forms of employee representation, including trade unions, and their national and transnational organisations. We are grateful to the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), which provided funding for the threeyear research project, enabling us, firstly, to develop a theoretical approach to articulation and, secondly, to carry out the field work necessary to