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When partnerships don't ‘match‐up’: an evaluation of labour–management partnerships in the automotive components and civil aviation industries
Author(s) -
Evans Claire,
Harvey Geraint,
Turnbull Peter
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
human resource management journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.44
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1748-8583
pISSN - 0954-5395
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2011.00177.x
Subject(s) - litmus , general partnership , civil aviation , automotive industry , context (archaeology) , subject (documents) , test (biology) , aviation , business , marketing , engineering , public relations , management , industrial organization , public administration , economics , political science , finance , computer science , paleontology , chemistry , library science , biology , aerospace engineering
Following the agenda for partnership research set out recently in this journal, ‘exemplar’ case studies from the automotive and civil aviation industries are subject to the litmus (process) test of academic pluralists and the acid (outcomes) test of academic radicals. On both tests, the results have been disappointing, especially for trade unions and their members. However, while mutual gains from partnership agreements are not probable in a UK context, they are still possible, as comparative research in the civil aviation sector serves to illustrate.