Partnership under pressure: A process perspective on decentralized bargaining in Danish and Australian manufacturing

TY - JOUR

T1 - Partnership under pressure

T2 - A process perspective on decentralized bargaining in Danish and Australian manufacturing

AU - Ilsøe, Anna

AU - Pekarek, Andreas

AU - Fells, Ray

PY - 2018/3/1

Y1 - 2018/3/1

N2 - Decentralization of collective bargaining has become widespread in developed economies, and EU policies have pushed this trend further. We use process-tracing methodology to explore the consequences of decentralization for the reproduction of partnership bargaining relations at company level. We compare two cases of decentralized bargaining in manufacturing, one in Denmark and one in Australia. Agreement-based decentralization seems to offer better process conditions for reproduction of local partnership compared to decentralization regulated by law. This implies that future decentralization measures should be negotiated rather than imposed.

AB - Decentralization of collective bargaining has become widespread in developed economies, and EU policies have pushed this trend further. We use process-tracing methodology to explore the consequences of decentralization for the reproduction of partnership bargaining relations at company level. We compare two cases of decentralized bargaining in manufacturing, one in Denmark and one in Australia. Agreement-based decentralization seems to offer better process conditions for reproduction of local partnership compared to decentralization regulated by law. This implies that future decentralization measures should be negotiated rather than imposed.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Australia

KW - decentralized bargaining

KW - Denmark

KW - manufacturing

KW - partnership

KW - process tracing

U2 - 10.1177/0959680117708375

DO - 10.1177/0959680117708375

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0959-6801

VL - 24

SP - 55

EP - 71

JO - European Journal of Industrial Relations

JF - European Journal of Industrial Relations

IS - 1

ER -