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The National Business System and its Applications: Reflections from the Belgian Experience KU Leuven
Transnational Negotiations on Employment: Successes and Failures of EWC-Union Coordinated Strategies KU Leuven
Employment relations in Italy KU Leuven
Bringing Labour Market 'Back in'. Restructuring in Internationalised Business in Europe KU Leuven
This article argues that labour market institutional differences need to be taken more into account to explain the diversity in restructuring processes undertaken by multinational companies (MNCs) within national contexts in Europe. Using an in-depth case study analysis of 12 international corporations affected by diverse restructuring processes in the Netherlands, Italy, France, Austria, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden, local social partners' ...
“Acting out” institutions: A cross-sector analysis of local unions' response and practices of resistance to collective redundancy in Belgium KU Leuven
Purpose: Restructuring has assumed a significant importance across Europe due to the growing pressures of internationalisation affecting transnational capital. By drawing from two case-studies in the public health service and the manufacturing sector in Belgium, this paper aims to present evidence of the local unions' capacity to strategically use the industrial relations institutional framework, which foresees the rights of employee ...
The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe: The Search for Alternatives KU Leuven
The EU and industrial relations modernization: supranational state support for trade union and social partner modernization and social dialogue KU Leuven
This article looks at how modernization in industrial relations is premised on a renewal and renovation of the social partnership and social dialogue agenda at the European Union (EU) level. It illustrates the attempts that have been made by the supranational state to set up a new regime of regulation in the EU. It consists of support initiatives that are aimed at deepening the ability of social and economic actors within EU policy networks and ...