Industrielle Beziehungen

Works councils, trade unions, employers and employers’ associations, as well as state bodies are among the central players in the so-called “dual system” of employee representation in Germany. In addition, there have always been other actors...

Employer organisations in the metal and electrical industry (M+E) first began to offer membership to firms not participating in collective bargaining in the 1990s. Taking into account central theoretical approaches, this article asks to what extent...

Quantitative text analysis and the use of large data sets have received only limited attention in the field of Industrial Relations. This is unfortunate, given the variety of opportunities and possibilities these methods can address. We demonstrate...

This article analyses the self-presentations and patterns of interpretation of the female business elite. The empirical data basis is formed by current German-language autobiographies of successful female top managers and entrepreneurs. The focus is...

Recent studies on the economic effects of works councils in Germany using the European Company Survey estimate a significant negative effect of works councils on establishment productivity and profitability. These results are in stark contrast to...

Social media play a paradoxical role in matters of interest representation in global value networks. On the one hand, social media platforms offer workers and trade unions the opportunity to move across geographical and institutional borders. On the...

New Public Management (NPM) has triggered far-reaching transformations within hospital sectors worldwide and professionalized hospital management has put employee representation under pressure. In this context the current state of research points...

The article focuses on how the trade union ver.di succeeded in mobilizing and organizing workers in the private security sector since 2012. The result of a strategic reorientation of the union’s collective bargaining policy, the union has been...

Recent societal developments such as the significant increase in female employment or digitalization challenge existing working time regimes. As part of its 2017/18 collective bargaining position, the IG Metall demanded a right to reduce working...

In dealing with the challenges of the ongoing digitalisation of products and services – especially the mastering of complexity and the handling of imponderables – the experiential knowledge of employees is seen as a key intangible resource. At...

The case study methodology, which is frequently used in the research field of industrial relations, has advantages. A serious disadvantage in that it is often unclear where it is located in the large-scale statistical picture. In the context of...

The technological bundle known as E-Health aims at a comprehensive transformation of business models and labor processes within hospitals. The discussed implications for qualifications and the work of doctors vary between optimistic diagnoses of new...

While companies operate across national borders in global value networks, trade union strategies of organizing transnationally are often still in their early stages of development. In view of the asymmetry between global production beyond borders...

The US-American philosopher Elizabeth Anderson claims that companies are dictatorships: the owners of capital rule over the employees. There is hardly any criticism of such relations. The reason for this is that economics is dominated by a...

Remote platform-work is an increasingly discussed issue with regard to spatial fragmentation and digitalisation. This manner of working virtually makes it difficult for workforces to articulate their interests: being geographically distributed and...