The Decentralization of Industrial Relations? New Institutional Spaces and the Role of Local Context in British Engineering

Martin, Ron; Sunley, Peter; Wills, Jane

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“…The spaces of institutional complexity we found are distinct from extant conceptualizations of space(s) in organizational institutionalism. Firstly, our conceptualization of institutional spaces relates to demands of institutional spaces defined by national boundaries (Ethington & McDaniel, 2007;Gaur et al, 2007;Kostova & Zaheer, 1999;Manolova et al, 2008) that influence organizational configurations (Martin et al, 1994;Oteman et al, 2014). Yet, in our understanding of institutional spaces there is less influence arising from national legal and regulatory aspects of institutionalization reflecting demands by national governments.…”

Section: Distinctions and Dynamics Of Spaces Of Institutional Complexitymentioning

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Explaining the leopards’ spots: Responsibility-embedding in business model artefacts across spaces of institutional complexity

Laasch

Pinkse

2020

Long Range Planning

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This article explores the phenomenon that corporations' commercial-logic business models increasingly embed responsibility-logic patterns: The proverbial leopards' spots. We have conducted a thematic analysis of responsibility patterns in annual report business model descriptions (artefacts) and a qualitative comparative analysis of corporations' strategic environment. We find distinct responsibility patterns, uniquely combined in four distinct types of responsibility business model artefacts. We explain these types through responses to institutional complexity between commercial and responsibility logics. Strategic responses were enabled or constrained by the characteristics of the varying spaces of institutional complexity of particular corporations. We contribute to an emerging heterogeneous business model literature by providing empirical evidence. We contribute to the institutional discussion of corporate responsibility by providing a typology of responsibility business models and by explaining why each type emerged in their respective institutional space. We also discuss how practitioners' efforts to embed responsibility into their business models may benefit from our findings.

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Section: Distinctions and Dynamics Of Spaces Of Institutional Complexitymentioning

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Explaining the leopards’ spots: Responsibility-embedding in business model artefacts across spaces of institutional complexity

Laasch

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2020

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“…rm size and ownership) to understand how particular landscapes of unionism take shape. In addition, Martin et al (1994) whose work addresses the ways that decentralisation of the engineering industry in Britain has pushed unions to reorganise their strategies. Lastly, Herod (1997), in his examination of the longshoring industry, nds that employers were pushed by the unions to reorganise their geography.…”

Section: Approaches To Geographies Of Labour Protest: a Brief Reviewmentioning

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Gender Geographies of Activism: Motherhood, Migration, and Labour Protest in West Java, Indonesia

Silvey¹

2003

Asian J Soc Sci

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This article contributes to the literature on the geography of unionism through an examination of the processes shaping women's labour activism in Indonesia. Based on in-depth interviews and survey data, the study is a comparative investigation of two villages in West Java. The research investigates both the factors that women factory workers consider when deciding whether to participate in labour protests, as well as the gender-specific pressures on women to refrain from participating in labour activism in the two villages. The study explores the ways in which ideologies of motherhood and femininity operate differently in the two communities and within groups of women with different migration and marital statuses. In sum, the article contends that in order to develop a more complete analysis of the geographies of labour activism, research must take seriously the specificity of community-scale negotiations over gender norms and expectations, and address women's active roles in the on-going production of gender relations and spaces of activism.

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“…On the other hand, labour market institutions will vary geographically in terms of their structure, functions and the local impacts of their strategies (the 'regulatory' dialectic). Labour institutions and the labour market are thus inextricably bound together in different ways in different places, making the analysis of labour institutions such as unions of paramount importance (Clark, 1989;Martin et al, 1994). In their work on trade union geographies, for example, Martin et al (1996) suggest that industrial relations are inherently geographic due to the spatial structures of union organizations, the spatial embeddedness of relations in local economic, political, social and cultural contexts, and the way localities are used as strategic spaces by both unions and employees.…”

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On location: American capital and the local labour market in the Vancouver film industry

Coe

2000

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article makes three contributions to the local labour market literature. Firstly, it provides an empirical example of the contours and dynamics of a unique local labour market. Secondly, it explores the degree to which the local labour market is shaped by external forces operating at the national and international scale. Thirdly, it considers the extent to which the local labour market can be conceptualized as a multi-vocal social construct. These ideas are developed through a case study of union involvement in the Vancouver film industry. During the summer of 1997 there was a period of discord between the actors' union in Vancouver, UBCP, and American producers, represented by the AMPTP. These tensions were exacerbated by the involvement of the Provincial Government, the local press and other vested interest groups. Using a variety of interview and documentary evidence, this dispute is used to illustrate the geographically specific and highly complex nature of local labour markets. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2000.

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The Decentralization of Industrial Relations? New Institutional Spaces and the Role of Local Context in British Engineering

Cited by 11 publications

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Explaining the leopards’ spots: Responsibility-embedding in business model artefacts across spaces of institutional complexity

Explaining the leopards’ spots: Responsibility-embedding in business model artefacts across spaces of institutional complexity

Gender Geographies of Activism: Motherhood, Migration, and Labour Protest in West Java, Indonesia

On location: American capital and the local labour market in the Vancouver film industry

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