Industrielle Beziehungen

In this article, thirteen case studies are analysed which study the innovation processes renewing structures and forms of employee participation in companies in private and public sectors of industry in the Netherlands. In the majority of the case...

Global production or value networks have gained significantly in importance as organizational forms of economic activity over the past decades. A by-product of this development, however, despite the widespread concern it has caused among many...

We speak of path dependency when decisions made in the past influence or even restrict the ability to act today. Utilizing the Co-determination Index (MB-ix) developed at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), the article analyzes the configuration...

The European Parliament considers the strengthening of employee and trade union rights as fundamental instruments for democracy and inclusion. While member states are obliged to incorporate collective bargaining autonomy and employee participation...

Currently works council typologies are often used to describe negotiation processes between employers and corporate co-determination. These generally pursue a more poweroriented perspective to describe the negotiation processes and their results. In...

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...