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Edited by: Roger Blanpain, W Bromwich, O Rymkevich, Iacopo Senatori
March 2011,
ISBN 9041134506
ISBN 13:
9789041134509
392 pp.
Paperback
USD price: $169.00
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Now also available as
eBook
Now that the economic orthodoxy of ‘light-touch’ regulation has been widely
discredited by recent events in the financial markets, and
shareholder-oriented management has come under intense scrutiny, it is time to
seriously consider the merits of stakeholder-oriented economies. In this
far-reaching symposium on this aspect of comparative labour relations, 35
scholars examine case studies and evolving scenarios in a wide variety of
countries, from leading economic powers such as the United States, the United
Kingdom, and Germany to post-socialist states such as Poland, Hungary, and
Bulgaria to the formidable global economic presences of Brazil, Russia, and
India. With contributions from leading experts from all around the world in
the fields of labour law, industrial relations, labour economics, labour
statistics, human resources management, organization theory and other related
subjects, the papers focus on the impact of the global economic crisis and its
implications for the future of employment. Specific contexts covered include:
o adversarial versus strategic collective bargaining; o transnational
collective bargaining; o long-term employees as the most valuable corporate
stakeholders; o workers’ voice and participation in the restructuring of
undertakings; o privatization of state-owned companies; o executive pay; o
investment in vocational training in times of economic crisis; o the impact of
the EU’s Cross-Border Merger Directive; o inherent dangers in the EMU
one-size-fits-all monetary policy; and o cases of large-scale corporate fraud.
Of particular interest is the treatment of important developments in Singapore
and Nigeria, as well as lessons to be learned from pitfalls encountered in
South Africa and other countries. With its theoretical arguments and empirical
data, this volume is certainly a major contribution to the debate over whether
shareholder or stakeholder approaches to management yield the best results in
terms of employment outcomes. As the world economic crisis continues to take
its toll on employment, pension funds, public services, and living standards,
the book is sure to find a wide audience among policymakers and lawyers
worldwide concerned with the future of employment relations and their effect
on both productivity and social stability. This volume includes a selection of
papers from the Eighth International Conference in commemoration of Marco
Biagi held at the Marco Biagi Foundation in Modena, Italy in March 2010.
Notes on Contributors
Editorial
Part I Collective Bargaining
Chapter 1 The Employer's Perspective on Collective Bargaining Coverage:
An Analytical Framework
Chapter 2 The Efficacy of Transnational Collective Bargaining: The
Spanish Case
Chapter 3 The Emergence of Collective Bargaining Structures in a
Transformation Economy: The Example of Nigeria
Chapter 4 From Adversarial to Strategic Collective Bargaining: The Case
of a Small Open Economy
Part II Participation
Chapter 5 Employee Share Ownership and Workers' Participation: A Tool
for Cooperation?
Chapter 6 Employee Participation: A Lever of Corporate Governance to
Increase the Effectiveness of Human Resource Practices
Chapter 7 Workers' Voice and Involvement in the Restructuring of
Undertakings
Chapter 8 The Statute for a European Company and the Polish Model of
Employee Involvement
Chapter 9 Employee-Elected Directors on Company Boards: Stakeholder
Representatives or the Voice of Labor?
Chapter 10 Employee Participation and Governance: A South African
Perspective
Part III Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 11 Corporate Social Responsibility: An Integral Element Rather
than a Bolt-On Option
Chapter 12 Conceptualization of Corporate Social Responsibility in the
Context of Labor Law
Chapter 13 Corporate Social Responsibility, the Labor Market and
Industrial Relations in Bulgaria
Chapter 14 Labor Regulation in Shareholder and Stakeholder Economies
Part IV Corporate Governance and Regulatory Models
Chapter 15 Labor Economics, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Social
Responsibility: Interfaces and Boundaries
Chapter 16 A Social Dimension for Transatlantic Economic Relations
Chapter 17 Investment in Human Capital in Times of Economic Crisis
Chapter 18 Employee Board-Level Representation in the European Union:
The Cross-Border Merger Directive and Its Impact in the Netherlands
Chapter 19 Shareholder versus Stakeholder Capitalism
Chapter 20 Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up Meets Mutuality: Governance in the
NHS in Scotland
Chapter 21 Balancing the Interests of Shareholders and Stakeholders
through Corporate Governance
Chapter 22 The Employment of Executive Staff under Russian Labor Law
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