Countervailing Power, Organisational Parallelism and Australian Employer Associations

David H. Plowman
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David H. Plowman: School of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour, University of New South Wales, Kensington.

Australian Journal of Management, 1989, vol. 14, issue 1, 97-113

Abstract: There is a substantial body of literature which suggests that employer associations are for Med to provide a countervailing force to trade unions. One for M of countervailing power is organisational parallelism, a situation in which associations' methods of organisation replicates that of unions. After examining the evidence, this paper concludes that the countervailing power thesis is inadequate in explaining the origins and development of employer associations in the Australian context.

Keywords: COUNTERVAILING POWER; ORGANISATIONAL PARALLELISM; COMPULSORY ARBITRATION; EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS; PEAK UNION ORGANISATIONS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1177/031289628901400106

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