Implications

Paul Marginson and Keith Sisson

Chapter 12 in European Integration and Industrial Relations, 2006, pp 306-318 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Chapter 11’s elaboration of the complexity, uncertainty and instability surrounding Europe’s multi-level system of industrial relations will no doubt invite some to conclude that it is, in the language of Scharpf’s (1988) ‘joint decision trap’, ‘sub-optimal’. Centralized or decentralized arrangements, they might contend, are surely preferable. Yet, however compelling the reasoning may be, neither centralization nor decentralization represent a realistic, or indeed desirable, way forward. This is all the more true given that industrial relations governance concerns much more than wage determination, with issues such as restructuring now prominent on the agenda.

Keywords: Trade Union; European Integration; Collective Bargaining; Industrial Relation; Collective Agreement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230504103_12

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