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Antecedents of concession bargaining in the Great Recession: evidence from Ireland
Author(s) -
Roche William K.,
Teague Paul
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12119
Subject(s) - recession , distributive property , collective bargaining , economics , bargaining power , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , wage bargaining , great recession , labour economics , microeconomics , macroeconomics , wage , psychology , developmental psychology , mathematics , pure mathematics
Concession or ‘give back’ bargaining involves firms seeking changes in pay and conditions of employment from trade unions in return for pledges of enhanced job security and sometimes other forms of reciprocation. Several distinct modes of concession bargaining are distinguishable in the literature, and three modes of concession bargaining have been identified in Ireland during the Great Recession: integrative, distributive and minimal engagement. Deploying qualitatively informed quantitative data on the conduct of collective bargaining during the Great Recession, this article examines a series of antecedent influences on the choices firms make in conducting concession bargaining with unions.