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Sectors or countries? : typologies and levels of analysis in comparative industrial relations
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Bechter, Barbara, Brandl, Bernd and Meardi, Guglielmo (2012) Sectors or countries? : typologies and levels of analysis in comparative industrial relations. European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol.18 (No.3). pp. 185-202. doi:10.1177/0959680112452691 ISSN 0959-6801.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680112452691
Abstract
This article presents a critique of the ‘methodological nationalism’ of traditional comparative industrial relations. It investigates nine different sectors across the 27 EU member states on the basis of seven empirical indicators. It is found that industrial relations vary across sectors as deeply as they do across countries, and that a cluster analysis of sectoral industrial relations produces very different results from one at national aggregate level. The concept of ‘national model’ of industrial relations, implying coherence and homogeneity within countries, and geographical typologies of industrial relations ‘types’, are therefore put in question. The article concludes by pointing at the theoretical and methodological implications of a focus on the sector as an important level of analysis.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Comparative industrial relations | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Industrial Relations | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0959-6801 | ||||
Official Date: | 20 July 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.18 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 185-202 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0959680112452691 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 December 2015 |
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