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E uropean W orks C ouncils and the Crisis: Change and Resistance in Cross‐Border Employee Representation at H onda and T oyota
Author(s) -
Hertwig Markus
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/bjir.12027
Subject(s) - restructuring , representation (politics) , resistance (ecology) , power (physics) , business administration , business , political science , finance , physics , biology , ecology , quantum mechanics , politics , law
The article analyses the effects of the financial and economic crisis on the structures and activities of the E uropean W orks C ouncils ( EWC s) at H onda and T oyota, which until 2007–8 were categorized as non‐efficient representation bodies. A theoretical concept is introduced to measure activation and to analyse the factors explaining change/stability. In the empirical part, the EWC s are analysed using data from expert interviews. Both EWC s have undergone different activation ‘paths’, which partly lead to a restructuring of the bodies and the implementation of new co‐ordination processes. Yet the basic logic was retained because of cultural and power related aspects.

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