Restructuring in an enlarged Europe: challenges and experiences

Guglielmo Meardi
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Guglielmo Meardi: Associate Professor of Industrial Relations, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK)

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2007, vol. 13, issue 2, 253-266

Abstract: This article presents historical and aggregate data on restructuring in central and eastern Europe, and some examples from multinationals in Poland and Hungary. It shows how the violent structural readjustment process of the 1990s has left important social, political and psychological legacies which affect current approaches to restructuring. The new EU Member States, faced with relocations both to the west (in capital-intensive industries) and further east (in low-skill labour-intensive industries), therefore need employee participation mechanisms, cross-border information and western solidarity to ensure the social acceptability of change.

Keywords: restructuring; central and eastern Europe; employee participation; post communism; relocation; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/102425890701300208

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