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Zusatztext Traxler and his colleagues have set a benchmark for the close and unreleting analysis of data ... some important lessons emerge Informationen zum Autor Franz Traxler is Professor of Industrial Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna where he has been since 1992. From 1993 to 1997 he was also the President of the Austrian Sociological Association and Consultant of the OECD, Paris, and the ILO, Geneva. Previous academic positions have included Senior Lecturer of the Federal Academy of Public Administration (1985-92) and Assistant Professor, University of Economics, Vienna (1976-85).Sabine Blaschke is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna. She has previously been a Research Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1992-5) and Junior Assistant Professore at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna (1995-7).Bernhard Kittel is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna. He has previously been both a Research Assistant (1994-6) and a Junior Assistant Professor (1995-6) within this same institute. Klappentext This book presents and examines evidence and theories about changing patterns of industrial relations and their links to convergence on the one hand, and economic competitiveness on the other. It includes a comprehensive set of comparable date on industrial relations in twenty OECD countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan, and most leading European countries. Zusammenfassung The regulation of the labour market by industrial-relations institutions has been an important theme in sociology, political science, economics, and jurisprudence. What has particularly attracted attention from a comparative perspective is the astonishing variety of national labour-relations institutions. This variety, when confronted with persistent economic internationalization raises two main questions. First, does internationalization impose pressures for change and, more specifically, for convergence on institutions? If such pressures are at work, is there a superior model the national systems are converging on? Second, under economic internationalization, cross-national differences in national arrangements may have an increasing impact on national economic performance. Hence the question is whether national labour-relations systems perform differently, and to what extent their performance has changed over time due to shifting circumstances. This book investigates these questions on the basis of a cross-national comparison, including comparable data from twenty OECD countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: The Theoretical and Methodological Framework of Analysis 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Internationalization, Performance, and Institutions 2: Concepts and Hypotheses 3: Measurement, Data, and Statistical Analysis Part Two: The Organization of Interests: Patterns and Dynamics 4: Concepts and Hypotheses 5: Representational Domains 6: Associational Centralization 7: Associational Power Part Three: Wage Regulation and Bargaining 8: Concepts and Hypotheses 9: The Levels of BargainingNTOC 10: Macroeconomic Wage Coordination 11: The Role of the State 12: The Coverage of Collective Bargaining Part Four: Labour Relations and Economic Performance 13: Concepts and Hypotheses 14: The Organization of Interests 15: Wage Regulation 16: Labour Relations and their Interaction with Economic Policy 17: Performance and Labour Relations: Hypotheses and Evidence Revisited Part Five: Instead of Convergence: Neoliberalism and Lean Corporatism as Alternatives 18: Internationalization, Performance, and the Prevalence of Path Dependency 19: Collective Action and Bargaining in Internationalized Markets 20: Coordination, Institutions, and Performance 21: The Metamorphoses of Labou...
