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MPIfG Report 1999–2002
governance, among Europe’s 100 largest non-financial companies.
The project thus develops a political economy of capital
ownership in Europe, and places this in the historical context
of the development of the distribution and organization
of property rights within modern capitalism. Its theoretical
point of departure is that the rise of a new “shareholder capitalism”
would be bound up with an increasing dominance of
financial capital over productive capital, or with the rise of
“outside” shareholders operating in globalizing capital markets,
and oriented exclusively to financial returns, compared
to other groups of owners whose fate is more tied up with that
of the individual company and its “stakeholders.” Project
duration: December 1998 to December 2000.
Preliminary report on the project:
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
The Rise of Shareholder Capitalism in Continental Europe? Paper
prepared for the 18th World Congress of the International
Political Science Association, Québec City, 1–5 August, 2000
Employers’ Associations in Central and Eastern
Europe
Franciszek Draus
The formation of employers’ associations in central and eastern
European countries is influenced by many endogenous
and exogenous factors. Endogenous factors include the structure
of the economic system, which is characterized by a predominance
of the state and a very complex property rights
situation; the ideologically or politically motivated interest of
governments, which have in many cases influenced the formation
of employers’ associations; and the strength or weakness
of trade unions, which are always an important point of
reference for employers. Exogenous factors include institutional
contacts with employers’ associations in western
Europe, which can be defined as a search for models, as well
as the institutional requirements of European integration
with respect to social partnership, which are proactively taken
into consideration. The analysis concentrates on the organization,
functions and representativeness of employers’ associations,
and on their position within the system of industrial
relations in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The
institutional requirements for the development of social dialogue
and for the future implementation of European social
policy are also discussed. The project is conducted jointly
with the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels. Project
duration: August 1998 to January 2000.
Franciszek Draus
Les organisations patronales dans les pays de l’Europe centrale et
orientale: Pologne, République tchèque, Hongrie. Brussels:
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), 2000, 124 pp.
Franciszek Draus
European Organizations and Social Partnership in Central
and Eastern European Countries. Poland, Czech Republic and
Hungary. In: Emilio Gabaglio, Reiner Hoffmann (eds.), European
Trade Union Yearbook 1999. Brussels: European Trade
Union Institute, 2000, 385–396
The Impact of Decollectivization of Labor
Relations on Employment
Stefan Zagelmeyer
In recent years, the evolution of collective bargaining systems
and their impact on economic and social performance have
increasingly been the focus of research in a number of social
science disciplines. Although collective bargaining is the core
of industrial relations systems, and research on bargaining
structures has focused more attention on the decentralization
of collective bargaining and on the resurgence of national
level social pacts, current understanding of the underlying
processes and their effects is still rudimentary. Theory construction
seems to be underdeveloped, and the empirical evidence
available on the impact of different configurations of
collective bargaining arrangements is mixed. The project,
which will result in a doctoral dissertation, comprises a comparative
sectoral analysis of the impact of decollectivization
processes in labor relations on employment. The study covers
a number of sectors in Germany and the UK. Whereas the UK
has experienced a decollectivization process since the 1970s,
German collective industrial relations have been in a process
of erosion since the early 1990s. In the project, the concept of
decollectivization of labor relations is illustrated using two
main examples: the demise of multi-employer collective bargaining
and the move of many companies to single-employer
collective bargaining, and the individualization of the
employment relationship with fewer and fewer employees
being covered by collective bargaining. Project duration: June
1999 to March 2000.
Stefan Zagelmeyer discontinued his project at the MPIfG
when he accepted a position as a researcher at the Chair of
Labour and Regional Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander-
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.