Contracting International Employee Participation - Global Framework Agreements

In the last two decades, multinational companies (MNCs) and global union federations (GUFs) have started to negotiate so-called global framework agreements (GFAs) which define minimum standards for labor conditions across their locations. This book focuses on the question why companies conclude GFAs, and identifies four groups of incentives: reduction and privatization of conflicts; public relations; promotion of equal competitive conditions; exogenous requirements and avoidance of public regulation. Based on an in-depth analysis of incentives considered to play a dominant role in the decision of companies to conclude GFAs, the book attempts to predict under which conditions GFAs can be expected to proliferate in the future.

List of contents

Part I: Foundations.- Part II: Effects of Global Framework Agreements.- Part III: Outlook.

About the author

Felix Hadwiger studied Politics & Law in Münster (2006-2009) and Law & Economics in Hamburg and Bologna (2011-2012). He was a member of the DFG-Graduate School in Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg (2013-2016). His research focusses on labor law and industrial relations. 

Summary

Explains why companies conclude Global Framework Agreements
Insights resulting from a new dataset containing the characteristics of 59 GFAs (2009-2016)
Analyses the public relations effect of GFAs and examines how companies make use of GFAs in the public relations section on their corporate websites

Employs for the first time tools and concepts from economics in order to comprehensively examine GFAs

Product details

• Authors: Felix Hadwiger
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783319890364
• ISBN: 978-3-31-989036-4
• No. of pages: 233
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 398 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 233 p. 23 illus., 2 illus. in color.
• Series: International Law and Economics; International Law and Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Labour law, social law; B, International Law, Law and Economics, Private International Law, Law and Criminology, Labour Law/Social Law, Industrial Organization, Conflict of Laws, comparative law, Economics of industrial organisation, Public international law: economic & trade, Company, commercial & competition law: general, Labor law, Social law & Medical law