Economic Change and Domestic Industrial Relations Institutions: Towards a Theoretical Model  

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Wailes, Nick

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Industrial Relations vol. 42 no. 2 (Jun. 2000), page 214-233.
Fulltext: 214.pdf (1.31MB)

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How does international economic change affect the domestic institutions of industrial relations? Most comparative industrial relations scholars are acutely aware of the intimate connection between international economic change and changes in national industrial relations. Nevertheless, in attempting to account for cross-national differences in industrial relations institutions and outcomes, they have adopted an ’institutionalist’ approach that treats the external pressures faced by developed countries as broadly similar, and explains the differences between countries in terms of institutional and organizational factors. In doing so, they have tended to homogenize, and externalize, the impact of international economic change, which leaves them unable to answer the question posed above. This paper outlines an approach that focuses on the role international economic change plays in shaping domestic policy coalitions. The efficacy of this approach, and especially its ability to help explain both similarities and differences, is illustrated using the case of industrial relations reform in Australia and New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s.

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