A typology of employers’ organisations in the United Kingdom

Leon Gooberman, Marco Hauptmeier and Edmund Heery

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2020, vol. 41, issue 1, 229-248

Abstract: This article examines employers’ organisations in the United Kingdom, drawing upon 70 interviews and a new dataset encompassing 447 employers’ organisations. The article’s contribution is to develop a new typology of employers’ organisations capturing their organisational change in the wake of the decline of collective bargaining. It does this by drawing on a conceptualisation of employers’ organisations as intermediary organisations before identifying four organisational types: lobbying, service, negotiating and standard-setting employers’ organisations. The article also identifies and discusses factors that underlie this pattern of differentiation.

Keywords: Collective bargaining; employer association; employer forum; employer interest representation; employers’ organisation; standard-setting; typology; United Kingdom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X17704499

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