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

Anna Ilsøe; Andreas Pekarek; Ray Fells

doi:10.1177/0959680117708375

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

Anna Ilsøe, Andreas Pekarek, Ray Fells

Employment Relations Research Centre

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of Industrial Relations
Volume	24
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	55-71
Number of pages	17
ISSN	0959-6801
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680117708375
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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Faculty of Social Sciences
Australia
decentralized bargaining
Denmark
manufacturing
partnership
process tracing

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Lokalaftaler om løn på danske og australske industrivirksomheder – aftaler vs. lovgivning som ramme for forhandlingsprocessen

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