The governability of collective bargaining. The case of Spain

Rosa Nonell, Ramón Alós-Moner, Antonio Martin Artiles and Joaquin Molins
Additional contact information
Rosa Nonell: Universidad de Barcelona
Ramón Alós-Moner: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Antonio Martin Artiles: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Joaquin Molins: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2006, vol. 12, issue 3, 349-367

Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse the concept of governability of collective bargaining proposed by Traxler, Blaschke and Kittel (2001) and to demonstrate its explanatory capacity and limitations in the Spanish case. Governability is an important subject that should be taken into account in the reform of industrial relations systems and in the debate with regard to centralisation and decentralisation of collective bargaining in Europe. The authors' main hypothesis is drawn up in line with the institutionalist approach. Their argument, based on the results of collective bargaining, is that the Spanish system of collective bargaining, in spite of the organisational weakness of the unions and of the employers' associations, is governable thanks to the role of the state, the institutions, the legal ordering, as well as tradition and custom.

Keywords: Governability; collective bargaining; power; domain; capacity of control; representation; representativeness; coverage; wages; wage dispersion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/102425890601200306 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:treure:v:12:y:2006:i:3:p:349-367

DOI: 10.1177/102425890601200306

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().