TY - JOUR T1 - Transnational Trade Union Strategies Toward European Wage Policy: A Neo-Institutional Framework JF - European Journal of Industrial Relations Y1 - 2014 A1 - Susanne Pernicka A1 - Vera Glassner KW - Europe KW - European wage policy KW - metal sector KW - neo-institutionalism KW - organizational fields KW - transnational trade union strategies AB -

This article applies sociological neo-institutionalism to help understand transnational trade union wage policy. We review existing approaches to the role of trade unions as organizational actors in wage bargaining coordination and contrast these with the concepts of organizational fields and institutional work. Besides structural and associational power, transnational institutions are also able to increase the ability and willingness of unions to act transnationally. We draw empirical evidences from existing studies on European wage bargaining coordination in metalworking.

VL - 20 L2 - eng UR - http://www.jku.at/soz/content/e94924/e98436/employee_groups_wiss98437/employees98438/subdocs98442/content229268/EuropeanJournalofIndustrialRelations-2014-Pernicka-0959680113518232_ger.pdf CP - 4 ER -