Industrielle Beziehungen

Innerverbandliche Heterogenität Und Die Vertretungswirksamkeit Deutscher Arbeitgeberverbände**

Interest heterogeneity and the effectiveness of German employer associations are discussed.

'Professoren Haben Weniger Probleme, Die Machen Sie Meistens.' Die Repräsentationsproblematik Der Betriebsräte Des Wissenschaftlichen Personals an Österreichischen Universitäten**

Works councils are usually regarded as homogenous actors rather than as a conglomeration of individual actors with heterogeneous values and norms. As a consequence, up-to-now tensions and discrepancies within works councils have remained an under-researched issue within the context of labor relations. In this paper, we draw on this issue by documenting and discussing tensions within the newly constituted works councils at the public universities in Austria. Empirical data were collected by...

Organisatorischer Wandel von Gewerkschaften in Postkommunistischen Ländern. Der Fall Der Solidarnosc**

Since the Eastern Enlargement of the EU, the conditions in which trade unions operate in Central Eastern Europe have changed considerably. The influence of the communist heritage and the dilemmas of the transformation period are losing their importance. Using the example of the Solidarity union, the article analyses the organisational change of unions in Central Eastern Europe. The failure of Solidarity's involvement in party politics has led to increasing attention being focused on workplace...

Corporate Governance Als Erfolgsfaktor?**

The rationale for the lively interest in corporate governance is the belief that there is a relationship between corporate governance and firm performance. A "good" governance system is supposed to have a positive impact on performance. This article provides a state-of-the-art review of empirical work on the link between corporate governance and firm performance. It finds that there are neither clearly positive nor negative effects that can be identified. In the discussion, various reasons fo...

Neue Konfliktlinien Industrieller Beziehungen - Neue Solidaritätsmuster?

The annual convention of the GIRA took place in 2008 in the Max Planck's institute of society research in Cologne. The observation of an increasing conflict of the exchange relations within the German system of the industrial relations began the conference. Analyses of these conflicts as well as the often new conflict lines underlying to them with solidarity samples is provided.