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The determinants of strike activity in foreign‐owned plants: Inter‐industry evidence from British Manufacturing Industry 1971–1973
Author(s) -
Enderwick Peter,
Buckley Peter J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.4090040205
Subject(s) - multinational corporation , disadvantage , sample (material) , business , labour economics , manufacturing , industrial organization , manufacturing sector , labor cost , economics , marketing , engineering , finance , political science , chemistry , chromatography , law , mechanical engineering
A simple exit(quit)–voice (bargaining) model of strike activity is applied to a sample of foreign‐owned plants in British manufacturing industry. Strike activity is found to depend on both structural and cost factors. Intra‐enterprise trade appears to be a significant cost consideration for integrated firms. These findings have important implications for labour responses to the multinational enterprise and challenge the alleged bargaining disadvantage of labour.