Publications - MPIfG

German and the Japanese “systems,” edited by Wolfgang Streeck and Kozo
Yamamura, were published by Cornell University Press. Gregory Jackson’s study on
German and Japanese corporate governance, “Organizing the Firm,” issued in a
dissertation submitted to Columbia University in 2001. Philip Manow’s work on
pension systems in the two countries has resulted in several articles and book
chapters. Patrick Ziltener’s postdoctoral project with the title “The Rise of East Asia
as a Regional Integration Process” linked up with some of the themes of the Germany-Japan
projects while also relating to the research at the MPIfG on European
integration.
A project of a novel kind was that on the impact of internationalization on
industrial relations in Germany. Under the direction of Wolfgang Streeck and Anke
Hassel, four doctoral students worked on closely related aspects of a common
theme, using a largely identical database. Subjects were the transformation of
industrial relations in large German companies, especially the unfolding relationship
between shareholder value and co-determination; the impact of new capital
markets on the investment behavior of firms, as affected by co-determination; the
introduction of contingent compensation in the context of internationalization
and shareholder value; and the rise of company-level bargaining on employment,
investment and flexibility and its impact on industry-level bargaining. This project,
too, was completed before the end of the reporting period; several books and
articles are about to appear at the time of writing.
Parallel to her work on the large
firms project, Anke Hassel has been
working on a Habilitation thesis involving
comparative analysis of wagesetting
under the impact of European
Monetary Union. The thesis was submitted
to the University of Bochum in
early 2003. Closely related to Hassel’s
theme is a new study by Wolfgang
Streeck and Christine Trampusch on
the German “Alliance for Jobs,” which
explores long-term changes in the relationship
between the state and organized
business and labor in Germany. One of the central issues of this study is the
intersection between industrial relations and social policy, a subject that was
explored in an edited volume completed by Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip
Manow in 2001. Ebbinghaus’ Habilitation thesis on the comparative political
economy of early retirement, submitted to the University of Cologne in 2002, continued
to pursue this theme. The same subject also figured prominently in the
2003 Special Issue of West European Politics on Germany edited jointly by
Wolfgang Streeck and Herbert Kitschelt (Duke University).
Stimulated in part by Jackson’s work on German and Japanese large firms, as
well as by the focus of the multiple dissertation project on the one hundred lar-
Project Areas and Research Projects
Doctoral project on the
impact of internationalization
on industrial relations in
Germany: Antje Kurdelbusch,
Jürgen Beyer, Anke Hassel,
Martin Höpner, Britta Rehder,
Wolfgang Streeck, Rainer
Zugehör
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