Negotiating competitiveness : employment relations and organizational innovation in Germany and the United States / Kirsten S. Wever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wever, Kirsten S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial relations--Germany.

Industrial relations.

Germany.

Industrial relations--United States.

United States.

Collective bargaining--Germany.

Collective bargaining.

Collective bargaining--United States.

Labor unions--Germany.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--United States.

Corporate reorganizations--Germany.

Corporate reorganizations.

Corporate reorganizations--United States.

Competition, International.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [1995]

Summary:

Combining the perspectives of business strategy, political economy, industrial relations, and human resource management, Negotiating Competitiveness compares and contrasts the inner workings of employment relations in the "social market" economy of Germany and the free market system of the United States. In analyzing each approach to the relationship between employment relations and competitiveness, Wever shows how the institutional context in which a company operates shapes its employment relations strategies, which in turn affect how it adjusts to external pressures. Negotiating Competitiveness will interest anyone concerned with national industrial competitiveness in the contemporary global economy. This book goes beyond the empirical evidence to examine the extent to which necessary organizational and public policy changes are possible in each country, and to offer concrete ideas for combining the best elements of the employment relations systems of two of the most powerful advanced industrial nations in the world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0875845541

OCLC:

31330418