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Zusatztext In this ambitious book, Roderick Martin follows a comparative institutionalist approach in describing how the major institutions governing capitalist economies were constructed and key features of their business systems changed. He discusses four CEE countries, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania, in the roughly 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Constructing Capitalisms focuses on four major features, or axes, of structural change, in these political economies: property ownership, means of capital allocation and accumulation, conditions governing access to and mode of involvement in local, national, and international markets and production systems, and the differentiation of economic activities from the state. Informationen zum Autor Roderick Martin was formerly Professor of Management at the Business School and Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary. Previously, at the University of Oxford, he served as a Fellow (Politics and Sociology) at Trinity College, a Senior Proctor, and a Fellow (Information Management) at Templeton College. He has also been Professor and Director at the Glasgow Business School, University of Glasgow, and at the School of Management, University of Southampton, and a Professor of Industrial Sociology at Imperial College, London. He has authored over 10 books in business management, organizational behaviour, industrial relations, and industrial sociology, and has published over 60 research papers in international journals. He has undertaken extensive consultancy work for private and public sector organizations, including, in the UK, the National Health Service, the Scottish Police College, and the Atomic Energy Authority. Klappentext Bargaining Power examines the balance of power between management and unions, showing why some managements- and some trade unions- are more powerful than others. Bargaining power has long been recognized as central to industrial relations, but no previous work has taken the issue as its central focus. Zusammenfassung Aims to provide an analytical treatment of bargaining power, looking at explanations of the balance of power between management and unions. The author argues that trade union power has declined less than global figures of declining membership suggest. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Definitions, measurement, and model 1: with Philip Beaumont: The development of bargaining theory 2: with Andrew Thomson: Environmental influences on bargaining power 3: Values, beliefs, objectives, and bargaining power 4: Bargaining power inaction 5: The influence of bargaining power on the outcomes of collective bargaining 6: Bargaining power in changing contexts: hotels and catering, motor vehicles, and local government 7: Trade Union power at the beginning of the 1990s: secular decline or terminal collapse? Bibliography Index ...
