Partnership under pressure: A process perspective on decentralized bargaining in Danish and Australian manufacturing

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Decentralization of collective bargaining has become widespread in developed economies, and EU policies have pushed this trend further. We use process-tracing methodology to explore the consequences of decentralization for the reproduction of partnership bargaining relations at company level. We compare two cases of decentralized bargaining in manufacturing, one in Denmark and one in Australia. Agreement-based decentralization seems to offer better process conditions for reproduction of local partnership compared to decentralization regulated by law. This implies that future decentralization measures should be negotiated rather than imposed.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Industrial Relations
Volume24
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)55-71
Number of pages17
ISSN0959-6801
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2018

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  • Faculty of Social Sciences - Australia, decentralized bargaining, Denmark, manufacturing, partnership, process tracing

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