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• Trade Union Decline and What Next. Is Germany a Special Case?**/Gewerkschaftlicher Niedergang Und Was Dann? Ist Deutschland Ein Besonderer Fall?

This paper commences with a survey of international trends in union membership, union density and collective bargaining, while focusing on the comparative position of trade unions in Germany. The author considers three hypotheses concerning the development of unionism in recent decades. The first one is that globalisation and structural change in the economy and labour market pull all countries towards a neo-liberal convergence of which union decline is one manifestation. The second predicts that resilient national institutions of collective bargaining and union-employer cooperation enable continued divergence in unionization levels across Western economies. The third one, which seems particularly relevant for Germany, states that feedback mechanisms from internal diversity among both e...

...In China and India there is no such bargaining or joint regulation ou... towards a market economy, it is clear that wages in the private sector are decided at company level... of the level and changes of the minimum wage decided by the government, sometimes after co...

• Industrielle Beziehungen
• Band 14 Nr. 2, April 2007

• Approaches to International Industrial Relations in Chinese Multinational Corporations**

Using a longitudinal case study approach this study examines the approaches to international industrial relations (IIR) in eleven Chinese multinational corporations MNCs. It reveals that the Chinese MNCs adopted an integrative approach to IIR, combining both the home and host country industrial relations (IR) systems. The extent of home-based or host-based IR was dependent on the MNC's bargaining power, which was determined by the size of the subsidiaries, their abilities to transfer knowledge and technology, and their reliance on the host market. International experience and industry also affected IIR approaches. The practical implications of the findings are discussed.

... embedded in labour standards, including wages and working conditions that MNCs set for host coun... were interested in setting up factories in India, but had abandoned their interest when they learnt... with local labour regulations, including minimum wages, paid holidays, and diversity management. Th...

• Management Revue
• Band 18 Nr. 4, Januar 2007