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- Title
Management Whipsawing.
- Authors
Greer, Ian; Hauptmeier, Marco
- Abstract
The authors examine management whipsawing practices in the European auto industry based on more than 200 interviews and a comparison of three automakers. They identify four distinct ways in which managers stage competition between plants to extract labor concessions: informal, hegemonic, coercive, and rule-based whipsawing. Practices at the three auto firms differed from one another and changed over time because of two factors: structural whipsawing capacity and management labor relations strategy. In the context of economic globalization, whipsawing is an effective means for managers to extract concessions, to loosen national institutional constraints, and to diffuse employment practices internationally.
- Subjects
EUROPE; CONCESSION bargaining; AUTOMOBILE industry; INDUSTRIAL relations; EMPLOYMENT practices; GLOBALIZATION; LABOR unions
- Publication
ILR Review, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0019793915602254