Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/78972 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Citation: 
[Journal:] Management Revue [ISSN:] 1861-9916 [Volume:] 16 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Rainer Hampp Verlag [Place:] Mering [Year:] 2005 [Pages:] 123-137
Publisher: 
Rainer Hampp Verlag, Mering
Abstract: 
This paper critically reviews literature on the behaviour of US-based Multi National Companies (MNCs) in Germany in relation to the historic institutions of the German labour market: works councils and industry wide collective bargaining. The German system is becoming increasingly company-rather than sectorally centred, and US-based companies have reinforced a wing of German employer opinion seeking to further these developments. Surveys show US-based companies generally accepting works councils and sectoral bargains but case study evidence also shows them seeking to weaken links with parts of the system external to the company. A typology is proposed and it is argued that many US-based companies appear to follow a 'formal compliance/content avoidance dichotomy' tending to exacerbate the system's existing tendencies towards disarticulation. They also tend to explore all options available to them within the existing system. A research agenda is suggested.
Subjects: 
US Multinationals
Germany
industrial relations
Document Type: 
Article

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