Public Procurement as a new arena of industrial relations

公共采购作为劳资关系的新领域

• 批准号: 269943256
• 负责人: Dr. Karen Jaehrling, since 10/2019
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Aalborg Universitet
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/269943256?language=en
• 关键词: Public; Procurement; new; arena; industrial

A broad range of empirical studies have investigated the implications of outsourcing of public tasks to private contractors and have largely found negative effects on the quality of employment conditions in the privatised companies. This deterioriation of job quality is primarily seen as a consequence of the gap between the public and the private sector in terms of pay levels and the strength of industrial relations. Yet there is an increasing awareness at the political level that public authorities as well have ways and means of influencing working conditions in the contracted companies, for instance by making certain social standards a selection criteria in public procurement procedures. This set of policies adds a third actor to the usually bilateral balancing of interests between employer and employee representatives: public administration. Hence, the transition from the "interventionist" to the "regulatory" state gives rise to new trilateral interest configurations which so far have not been investigated systematically. The project aims to describe and explain the varied manifestations and results of these increasingly relevant trilateral negotiation processes. The central question of the research project is therefore how the conflicting interests in this negotiation arena (budget consolidation, normative expectations regarding socially responsible procurement, the profit interests of the private sector employer and employee concerns) are balanced. The core of the empirical inquiry consists of in-depth qualitative case studies on public procurement processes in a selection of local authorities. Additionally, documents from procurement processes covering a broader geographical area will be analysed. From a conceptual and analytical point of view, the research project presupposes, based on the author's previous work, that the interaction between procurement-specific processes and the general institutional context, particularly labour market regulations and the system of industrial relations, will deserve particular attention. The empirical investigation therefore compares public procurement procedures in two industries (waste disposal and contract catering) that are most dissimilar with regard to the institutional context. The research project thereby contributes to the study of industrial relations in an emerging arena of collective bargaining and seeks to analyse the dynamics, power relations and (re)distributive consequences of bargaining in this arena.

一系列广泛的实证研究调查了将公共任务外包给私人承包商的影响，并在很大程度上发现了对私有化公司就业条件质量的负面影响。这种工作质量的降低主要被认为是公共部门和私营部门在工资水平和劳资关系强度方面存在差距的结果。然而，在政治一级，人们日益认识到，公共当局也有办法和手段影响合同公司的工作条件，例如，在公共采购程序中将某些社会标准作为选择标准。这套政策在雇主和雇员代表之间通常是双边利益平衡的基础上增加了第三个行动者：公共行政。因此，从“干预”到“监管”国家的过渡产生了新的三边利益格局，迄今为止还没有得到系统的研究。该项目旨在描述和解释这些日益相关的三边谈判进程的各种表现形式和结果。因此，研究项目的中心问题是如何平衡这一谈判竞技场中相互冲突的利益（预算合并、对社会责任采购的规范性期望、私营部门雇主的利润利益和雇员的关切）。实证调查的核心是对选定地方当局的公共采购程序进行深入的定性案例研究。此外，还将分析涉及更广泛地理区域的采购程序文件。从概念和分析的角度来看，本研究项目根据作者以前的工作，预先假定具体采购过程与一般体制环境，特别是劳动力市场条例和劳资关系制度之间的相互作用值得特别注意。因此，实证调查比较了两个行业（废物处理和承包餐饮）的公共采购程序，这两个行业在体制背景方面最不相似。因此，该研究项目有助于研究劳资关系在一个新兴的集体谈判竞技场，并试图分析动态，权力关系和（重新）分配的谈判在这个竞技场的后果。

项目成果

Tackling Precarious Work in Public Supply Chains: A Comparison of Local Government Procurement Policies in Denmark, Germany and the UK

解决公共供应链中不稳定的工作：丹麦、德国和英国地方政府采购政策的比较

• DOI: 10.1177/0950017018758216
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Work, Employment and Society
• 作者: Jaehrling;Karen ; Johnson;Mathew ; Larsen;Trine P. ; Refslund;Bjarke ; Grimshaw;Damian
• 通讯作者: Damian

Moving in and Out of the Shadow of European Case Law: The Dynamics of Public Procurement in the Post‐Post‐Rüffert Era

走出欧洲判例法的阴影：后鲁费尔特时代公共采购的动态

• DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13023
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: European Economics: Political Economy & Public Economics eJournal
• 作者: Refslund;Bjarke ; Jaehrling;Karen ; Johnson;Mathew ; Koukiadaki;Aristea ; Larsen;Trine Pernille ; Stiehm;Christin
• 通讯作者: Christin

Der Staat als ‚Guter Auftraggeber‘? Öffentliche Auftragsvergabe zwischen Vermarktlichung und Sozialpolitisierung

国家是“好客户”吗？

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-38026-7
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Jaehrling;Karen ; Stiehm;Christin
• 通讯作者: Christin