Employment relations in global production networks: Initiating transfer of practices via union involvement

Fichter, Michael; Helfen, Markus; Sydow, Jörg

doi:10.1177/0018726710396245

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“…In the late 1980s, TNC strategies reappeared in a different and more limited form, under the guise of GFAs. GFAs are usually signed between the headquarters of a TNC and a GUF, and usually include a commitment to basic rights such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) core labour standards (Fichter, Helfen, & Sydow, 2011). Some GFAs have more robust mechanisms around implementing and monitoring organizing rights.…”

Section: Spatial Reach Versus Grounded Struggles: Trade Unions and Tncsmentioning

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Towards resonant places: reflections on the organizing strategy of the International Transport Workers’ Federation

Anderson¹

2015

Space and Polity

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This article explores a geographical dilemma at the heart of union organizing in transnational corporations; namely, how to circulate union power across different spaces when existing labour struggles are generally restricted to single sites. Reflecting on the experience of the International Transport Workers' Federation, this paper argues that single site campaigns have been crucial to its organizing programme. Analysing cases involving dock workers in India and logistics workers in Turkey, it is noted that these struggles are resource intensive but potentially transformational, and should be theorized as 'resonant places' in a wider global organizing strategy.

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Section: Spatial Reach Versus Grounded Struggles: Trade Unions and Tncsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards resonant places: reflections on the organizing strategy of the International Transport Workers’ Federation

Anderson¹

2015

Space and Polity

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“…The pivotal role played by a range of actors beyond the enterprise, including the emergence of Global Union Federations (GUF) in shaping HRM practices, is highlighted in the article in this special issue by Fichter et al (2011). They provide an examination of International Framework Agreements (IFAs) and the evidence suggests that headquarters level unions and employee representatives are influential in advancing labour's interests through such agreements.…”

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Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of International HRM

2011

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In this article we argue that International HRM research will benefit from an extended research agenda that moves: i) beyond the enterprise, ii) beyond managerialism, and iii) beyond universalism. This will require both a wider range of theoretical resources to be brought to bear and a greater attentiveness to the interpenetrating levels of the empirical worlds that are subject to evaluation and explanation. The article reflects on the opportunities for drawing on theoretical frameworks from proximate research areas and advances a multi-level approach in order to achieve a more holistic and situated understanding of HRM in its international and comparative contexts.

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“…Hammer ; Fichter et al. ). Involving management and labor, these bilateral agreements are potentially more effective than unilateral codes of conduct because they are based on a collaborative, problem‐solving approach that may be uniquely placed to manage risk and uncertainty across global supply chains.…”

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Labor, Risk, and Uncertainty in Global Supply Networks—Exploratory Insights

Sydow

Frenkel

2013

J of Business Logistics

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Arising from widespread outsourcing and, in particular, offshoring, goods and services are increasingly provided by supply networks that rely on global logistic systems. While the risks and uncertainties involved in this strategy have been widely acknowledged in the literature on interorganizational networks and supply chain management, labor conditions and labor relations—and related human resource management issues—have thus far been neglected. Starting from a perspective that takes into consideration that global supply networks are not only confronted with calculable risks but also genuine uncertainties, we explore the conditions under which labor may constitute a source as well as a means for dealing with risk and uncertainty. The study is based on a review of the relevant interorganizational network and supply chain management literature and is informed by an investigation of International Framework Agreements (IFAs) in 10 European corporations and their supply networks. IFAs—in addition to unilateral codes of conduct—could be used to detect and cope with labor‐related risk and uncertainties. However, our findings reveal that this is not the case. This leads to some tentative theoretical conclusions and implications for dealing with risk and uncertainty in global supply networks.

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Employment relations in global production networks: Initiating transfer of practices via union involvement

Cited by 65 publications

References 48 publications

Towards resonant places: reflections on the organizing strategy of the International Transport Workers’ Federation

Towards resonant places: reflections on the organizing strategy of the International Transport Workers’ Federation

Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of International HRM

Labor, Risk, and Uncertainty in Global Supply Networks—Exploratory Insights

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