Three approaches to coordinated bargaining: A case for power-based explanations

TY - JOUR

T1 - Three approaches to coordinated bargaining

T2 - A case for power-based explanations

AU - Ibsen, Christian Lyhne

PY - 2015/3/16

Y1 - 2015/3/16

N2 - This article discusses three theoretical approaches to the study of coordinated collective bargaining, each positing different causal mechanisms: rational choice, rationalist institutionalism and discursive institutionalism. Each approach involves a different view of the exercise of power and distributional consequences. The three approaches are applied to the critical cases of Sweden and Denmark. The conclusion drawn is that coordination is not purely cooperative, and that cooperation is itself conditioned by power relations. Thus power must be placed at the heart of coordination studies.

AB - This article discusses three theoretical approaches to the study of coordinated collective bargaining, each positing different causal mechanisms: rational choice, rationalist institutionalism and discursive institutionalism. Each approach involves a different view of the exercise of power and distributional consequences. The three approaches are applied to the critical cases of Sweden and Denmark. The conclusion drawn is that coordination is not purely cooperative, and that cooperation is itself conditioned by power relations. Thus power must be placed at the heart of coordination studies.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Kollektive forhandlinger

KW - Magt

KW - Diskurs

KW - Rational choice

KW - Institutionalisme

KW - Danmark

KW - Sverige

KW - Coordinated collective bargaining

KW - Denmark

KW - discursive institutionalism

KW - rational choice

KW - rationalist institutionalism

KW - Sweden

U2 - 10.1177/0959680114527032

DO - 10.1177/0959680114527032

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0959-6801

VL - 21

SP - 39

EP - 56

JO - European Journal of Industrial Relations

JF - European Journal of Industrial Relations

IS - 1

ER -