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Summary

This book fills a desideratum of social science research: Based on a thorough theoretical reflection and a broad empirical analysis the differing impacts of globalization processes on the industrial relations in the ethical pharmaceutical industry in the UK and Germany are presented and evaluated. Different dimensions of economic globalization processes are elaborated, their respective influences on industrial relations are discussed. In conclusion, different developmental paths are presented and their validity evaluated. In contrast to the dominating hypotheses of convergence and divergence of industrial relations a differentiated prognosis is proposed. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Luitpold Rampeltshammer is project coordinator in the Department of Sociology of Organizations and Participation Studies at Ruhr University Bochum.

Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 12
Paradigmatic theoretical approaches to the study of industrial relations	p. 18
Industrial Relations: a definition	p. 19
Theories of industrial relations	p. 22
Industrial relations as a social system	p. 23
Actor-oriented analysis	p. 28
Institutionalist analysis	p. 33
Human resource management	p. 36
Comparative approach	p. 38
Industrial relations systems	p. 41
Political economy approach	p. 45
The free-market approach	p. 48
Marxist analysis	p. 54
Theory of regulation	p. 60
Corporatism	p. 63
Welfare state regimes	p. 65
Varieties or models of capitalism	p. 68
Theoretical synthesis	p. 76
Globalization and its impact	p. 83
Globalization, Internationalization, Regionalization, and Imperialism	p. 85
Analytical framework for the study of globalization	p. 88
Economic globalization	p. 90
Areas and main drivers of economic globalization	p. 93
The globalization discourse	p. 96
Empirical evidence	p. 101
Globalization of Trade	p. 101
Globalization of financial markets	p. 106
Foreign Direct Investment	p. 114
Global Production	p. 119
Globalization processes in ethical pharmaceutical industries	p. 123
History of the pharmaceutical industry	p. 123
Sector specifics: a snapshot	p. 133
Industrial relations institutions and processes: comparing the United Kingdom and Germany	p. 158
Industrial relations in the German pharmaceutical industry	p. 159
Codetermination levels	p. 161
Collective bargaining: stable structures, blurring practices, and new actors	p. 178
Centralized industrial relations under pressure: the trend toward the workplace level	p. 181
Impact of globalization on industrial relations in the German pharmaceutical industry	p. 185
Conclusion: assessing the changes in the industrial relations system of the German ethical pharmaceutical industry	p. 188
Industrial relations in the United Kingdom's pharmaceutical industry	p. 193
Employee representation: unionized versus nonunionized	p. 201
Structure of collective bargaining: importance of the workplace level	p. 207
Conclusion: Impact of globalization on industrial relations in the British pharmaceutical industry	p. 215
Conclusion: impact of globalization on industrial relations	p. 220
Literature	p. 239
List of Tables and Figures	p. 264
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