Changing the Rules of the Game

Dermot Christopher McCarthy, Eoin Reeves and Tom Turner

Public Management Review, 2011, vol. 13, issue 6, 845-860

Abstract: This article examines the impact of privatization on the relative bargaining strength of management and trade unions. Findings are based on a study of Ireland's largest telecoms provider, Eircom, which has been privatized since 1999. The privatization of Eircom adopted a stakeholder approach, under which employee share-ownership and management--union partnership played an important role in firm restructuring. Findings show that despite this approach privatization has resulted in a significant decrease in the perceived bargaining strength of unions and an increase in the perceived bargaining strength of management.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2010.539114

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