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NOTE _ We may have the need to proceed to some adjustments concerning papers’ distribution by the different tracks, in view of the organization of Special Panels.

TRACK 2: THE SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND THE NEW CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL PARTNERS IN EUROPE

RAPPORTEUR: Prof. MONTEIRO FERNANDES (Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa – Lisbon, Portugal)

 

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COUNTRY

ORGANIZATION

ABSTRACT

AUTHOR(S)

020

Australia

Deakin University

Social Dislocation: The Casualties of Temporary Agency Work

 

Elsa underhill

Malcom Rimmer

Clare Gallagher

023

Australia

University of New South Wales

Service or Servitude?: Health and Safety in
Call Centres and 5-Star Hotels

 

Philip  Bohle

MichaelQuinlan

030

Austria

Johannes Kepler University

Beyond flexibility – Prospects on future working time patterns

 

Rainer Loidl-Keil

032

Belgium

European Trade Union Institute

European Social Dialogue on Lifelong Learning

 

Peter Kerckhofs

034

Belgium

Institut d’Administration et Gestion

“Everybody at work”,
Ambiguities of the participation of unions and employers’ organizations
in the crusade for employment

 

Evelyne Leonard

035

Belgium

University of Nanterre e University of Brussels

The Evolution of EU Regulatory Modes as to Social Europe: its Implications for National Industrial Relation Systems

 

Janine Goetschy

037

Canada

 

Transcending National Frontiers: The emergence of European Capitalism”

 

Joshua E. Korber

039

Canada

Télé-Univeristé

Intentionally formed virtual Communities of practice?An analysis of the Gendered Differences in Participation

 

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

040

Denmark

Aalborg University e Roskilde University

The social dialogue within the European Employment Strategy. The case of the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany and Denmark

 

Helge Albrechtsen

041

Denmark

Danish Employers’ Association for the Financial Sector

Social dialogue in the European Banking Sector

 

Steen A. Rasmussen

043

 

Denmark

University of Aalborg

Symbiosis-like relationship between the demand and supply side of vocational education and training

 

Morten Lassen

Anja Lindkvist

044

Denmark

University of Aalborg

 “The Elasticity-Thesis”- how a CVT-system can serve as well diversified skill needs of industry as promote mobility and re-integration of the unemployed

 

John Houman Soerensen

Anja Lindkvist

046

Denmark

University of Copenhagen

Nordic Metal Trade Unions on the Move

 

Soren Kaj Andersen

Jon Erik Dolvik

045

Denmark

University of Copenhagen

Policies and partnerships for social inclusion - challenges and opportunities for trade unions and employers’ organisations

 

Mikkel Mailand

056

Finland

University of Tampere

The Social Dialogue and the New Challenges for Social Partners

The Role of Industrial Relations in the Development of Working Life - The Case of Finland

 

Satu Kalliola

059

France

Centre d’Études de l’Emploi e University of Nice

Organisational Innovation in Europe:

National Models or the Diffusion of a New ‘One Best Way’?

 

Edward Lorenz

Antoine Valeyre

060

France

Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris

"Transforming the conventions that underpin unemployment in France: the case of territorial employment pacts."

Philippe Archias

061

France

Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales

NEGOTIATING THE TRNSFORMATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS

 

Udo Rehfeldt

Catherine Vincent

062

France

Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales

French social partners and the European Employment Strategy : Towards europeanisation of the french social dialogue ?

 

Maurice Braud

065

France

University of Nancy

Unions, Turnover and Productivity :

New Evidence from France

 

Patrice Laroche

156 France Development Network Consultants

An Increasing challenge for social parteners in Europe: Social Dialoge and SMEs

Jacques Monat

001

Germany

Aachen University

Human Resources Policy and Industrial Relations in Fast-growing German Enterprises –
Direct Participation or Worker Representation? 

Markus Helfen

002

Germany

Arbeits Welt – Working World

Quality of industrial relations - A conceptual framework and comparative indicators

 

Anni Weiler

004

Germany

Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund

 

Leeds University Business School
 

The political economy of working lives:
economic restructuring, fields of intervention, learning partnerships and policy

 

Vera Trappmann
Ian Greenwood
Dr Wilfried Kruse
Dr Mark Stuart

005

Germany

Genda-Network for Feminist Labour Research – Philips University

Sociability of Work: A new concept for new challenges in Europe

 

Lena Correll

Stefanie Janczyk

006

Germany

Genda-Network on Feminist Labour Research - Philips University

The future of work in Europe – what kind of work? Impacts of gender on the definition of work and methodological demands for research

 

Alexandra Scheele

Julia Lepperhoff

008

Germany

Hans Bockler Fondation

Recent Developments in German Collective Bargaining

 

Reinhard Bispinck

Heiner Dribbusch

Thorsten Schulten

009

Germany

Nottingham Trent University

Achieving Employment Cohesion through the European Works Council: The Case of BMW and Rover

 

Michael Whittall

010

Germany

University of Bamberg

The European Company Statute –
Examination of its Impacts on Co-Determination

 

Sandra Schwimbersky

012

 

Germany

University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg & OTA

WorkLife Balance Policies and the Psychological Contract –

 Quantifying hidden costs

 

Michel E. Domsch

Désirée H. Ladwig

Maida Petersitzke

013

 

Germany

University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg & OTA

 

 

 

 

 

The Importance of Gender Diversity for Employer Attractiveness – an Analysis of Job Advertisements

 

Maike Andresen

Elena Hristozova

Uta B. Lieberum

014

 

Germany

University of the Federal Armed Forces

Managing Diversity – An Analysis of Existing Practices, Motives and Obstacles in German Football Clubs

Maike Andresen

Michel E. Domsch

Uta B. Lieberum

 

015

Germany

University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg & OTA

Efficiency of Family Friendly Policy

Michel Domsch

Désirée H. Ladwig

Helmut-Schmidt

 016

Germany

University of the Federal Armed Forces

Hidden Costs and Benefits of Job Security trough Flexibility: The Case of Airbus Germany

Maike Andresen

 

Elena Hristozova

 

Helmut-Schmidt

 

017

Germany

University of Applied Sciences

Comparing the Influence of German and Danish industrial relations actors

on European Works Councils

Helen Bicknell

Herman Knudsen

066

Greece

Panteion University

 

“Regulated vs Deregulated Working Time Flexibility in Europe: Evidence from the Greek Labour Market”

 

Lefteris Kretsos

067

Greece

University of Crete

“The Greek system of industrial relations between centralization and decentralization - The ‘difficult’ process of modernisation”

 

Christina Karakioulafis

068

Greece

University of Ioanina

The added value of European Works Councils:

A case study approach in Greek subsidiaries 

 

Theodore Koutroukis

072

Ireland

University of Limerick

Profit Sharing in Ireland: Complementing social partnership?

 

Daryl d’Art

Thomas Turner

073

Israel

Open University of Israel

Chaos or Planned Strategy? Industrial Relations in Israel during the Palestinian Uprising (Intifada)

 

Aviad Bar-Haim

075*

Italy

Institute for Labour Foundation

The European Works Councils – A Role Beyond the EU Directive?

 

Volker Telljohann

076*

 

Italy

Institute for Labour Foundation

New Forms of Work Organisation and Industrial Relations in Southern European EU Member States

 

Volker Telljohann

077

 

Italy

Universitá Cattolica

Bargaining Structure and Intra-Establishment Pay Inequality in Italy:

Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

 

Carlo Dell’Aringa

Claudio Lucifora

Nicola Orlando

078

Italy

University of Milan

European Governance and Democratic Representation : the Role of Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations

 

Gian Primo Cella

079

Italy

University of Milan

Between ‘beneficial constraints’ and ‘regime competition’.

 The dilemmas of the transposition into national legislation of the Directive on employee involvement in the European Company (SE).

 

Lorenzo Bordogna

080

Italy

University of Milan

Liberalisation processes and industrial
relations: The impact on representation and collective bargaining

 

Roberto Pedersini

069

Netherlands

Nijmegen Scholl of Management

Employee Share Schemes in Europe

A Case of Anglo-Saxonisation?

 

Erik Poutsma

Paul Lighart

Roel Schouteten

071

Netherlands

University of Nijmegen

From Incrementalism Towards A Euro Polder

 

Lei Delsen

070

Netherlands

University of Amsterdam

Shifts in flexibility and security for the older workers:

towards ‘flexicurity’-arrangements for the elderly in Europe?

 

Frank Tros

157   

 

Netherlands

University of Twente

Collective bargaining innovation, what does  it mean? A study of the effects of decentralized and individualized employment relations on collective bargaining

Jan Kees Looise

 Jan de Leeds

 Maarten van Riemsdijk

081

Nigeria

Michael Imoudu Labour Studies

Gender Issues and Social Protection;

The Nigerian Experience

Omolara Folorunsho

082

Norway

Institut for Labour and Social Research

Wage formation in two-tier bargaining models in Europe

 

Torgeir Aarvaag Stokke

086

Norway

Institute for Labour and Social Research

The normal working day under pressure. Employers and trade unions strategies in finance and food processing.

 

Hedi Nicolaisen

088

Norway

Institute for Labour and Social Research

“On strike to avoid future striking!” Norwegian white collar workers fighting for pendulum arbitration

 

Nina M. Kristiansen Skalle

089

Norway

Institute for Social Research

The effects of cooperation in the labour market upon trust and consensus

 

Trygve Gulbrandsen

090

Norway

Work Research Institute

Broad participation and the social dialogue – the key to enterprise development and the promotion of active ageing

 

Anne Inga Hilsen

Trude Steinum

153

Norway

Stavanger  University College

Regulations of OHS in the Nordic Countries – From Reflexive Practise to Market Flexibility?

 

Jan Erik Karlsen

Preben Hempel Lindoe

091

Pakistan

Advocates and Industrial Relations Advisor

Industrial Relations Ordinance, 2002 – Challenges of Globalisation

Faisal Mahmood Ghani

095

Portugal

CIES - ISCTE

Labour markets’ regulation and social convergence with EU patterns: the case of Portugal

 

António Dornelas

097

Portugal

ESGIN - IPCN

Redrawing Competences in European Social Policy: The Role of The Social Partners in the Community Regulatory Field

 

Sabina Santos

098

 

Portugal

Instituto Social de Serviço Social de Beja

The Future of Workers’ Mobility in Europe:

The Importance of Social Security

 

Eduardo Tomé

100

Portugal

Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa

The AutoEuropa labour agreement: an historic example to be followed by Portuguese industry

 

Marinús Pires de Lima

Marta Sofia Lino

Maria do Rosário Cruz

102

Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

Economic Aspect, Social and Contractors the Construction of Safety

 

Cristina Reis

096

Portugal

Confederação Nacional das Instituições de Solidariedade

The Future of Work in Europe. The market and the economic and social cohesion

José Custódio Leirião

155 Portugal

ISEG

Minist. Seg. Social e do Trabalho

 

Dynamics of the collective bargaining on the flexibility and employment changes in Portugal Maria da Conceição Cerdeira

051

Spain

University of Granada

Precariety And News Forms of Employment

 

Maria Eugénia Senise Barrio

Carlos Sánchez González

134

Sweden

University of Karlstad

Flexible workplaces and working conditions – replication of an empirical study

 

Birgitta Eriksson

Jan Ch Karlsson

135

Sweden

University of Karlstad

Patterns of Gender Segregation in Working Life

Theoretical and political connections

 

Ann Bergman

136

Sweden

University of Karlstad

Gender and work – in a regional context

 

Lena Gonäs

137

Sweden

University of Karlstad

Do unions matter in workplace restructuring?

 

Henrietta Huzell

141

Switzerland

ILO

Social Dialogue on Employment Policies in Europe

 

Ludek Rychly

105

United Kingdom

Kings College

Skill versus the employment relationship in national performance under nsnational pressures: the critical cases of Austria and Sweden

 

Guy Vernon

106

United Kingdom

Kingston University

Working time and the quality of work: a case study in UK local government

 

Christine Edwards

Charles Jackson

Olive Robinson

107

United Kingdom

Kingston University

Culture Against Cohesion: a study of industrial relations in a UK plant owned by a German automobile manufacturer

 

Fiona Moore

Chris Reese

108

United Kingdom

Leeds University

Re-regulation, voluntarism and the challenge of the social dialogue within the British system:  Case studies on partnership in the finance sector

 

Mark Stuart

Miguel Martínez Lucio

110

 

United Kingdom

Leeds University Business School

Recruitment, Training and the use of contract alternatives in the UK construction and civil engineering sector

 

Rob MacKenzie

Chris Forde

111

United Kingdom

Leeds University Business School

Employment agencies, the TUC and regulation of the ‘temporary help’ industry in the UK : 1950-1973.

 

Chris Forde

113

United Kingdom

London School of Economics

British Trade Unions and the European Union: Differential responses to European Integration.

 

Erin Van der Maas

114

United Kingdom

London School of Economics

Union Revitalization in Comparative Perspective: a five country study

Panel proposal for IIRA, European Congress, Lisbon , September 2004

 

John Kelly

Carola Frege

Martin Behrens

Rick Hurd

Ed Heery

Lee Adler

LowelTurner

115

United Kingdom

London School of Economics

The Decentralisation of Collective Bargaining and its Impact on the                Relations Between Workplace Representatives and Trade Unions

 

Niels-Erik Wergin

116

United Kingdom

London School ofEconomics

The European Employment Strategy: did the social partners contribute as planned, or profit as planned, and if not, why not?

 

Bernard H. Casey

120

United Kingdom

Oxford University

The Sound of Silence; Employers’ Demand for Employee Voice

 

Paul Willman

Alex Bryson

Rafael Gomez

124

United Kingdom

University of Brighton

Mapping the coordinates of public sector labour relations in Europe

 

Marian Whitaker

Jens Holscher

126

United Kingdom

University of the West of England

EU Social Policy and Non-Union Forms of Employee Representation: A Case Study from UK Finance

Martin Upchurch

Mike Richardson

Stephanie Tailby

Andy Danford

Paul Stewart

128

United Kingdom

University of Warwick

Trade unions and the annualisation of working time: The UK in comparative perspective

 

James Arrowsmith

129

United Kingdom

University of Warwick

Industrial Relations at European sector-level: the weak link?

 

Paul Marginson

131

United Kingdom

University College

Employee voice on training in Britain - the beginning of institutionalisation?

 

Helen Rainbird

160 United Kingdom University Cambridge The Effects of Just-in-Time/ Lean Production on Worker Job Stress

Jamis J. Angelis

 

Colin Gill

 

Robert Conti

 

Cary Cooper

 

Brian Faragher

 

054

USA

University of Alabama

Do European Works Councils Effect the Economic Performance of Multinational Firms in the European Union

 

Trevor Bain


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