Enterprise Governance and the Process of Enterprise Design

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-199
Author(s):  
Jan A. P. Hoogervorst
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Design ◽  
Enterprise Governance

scholarly journals Decentralized Bargaining in a Globalizing Industry

2006 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell D. Lansbury ◽  
Chris F. Wright ◽  
Marian Baird
Keyword(s):  
Lean Production ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Skill Formation ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Automotive Assembly ◽  
Enterprise Governance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Decentralized Bargaining

This paper examines the impact of enterprise bargaining on employment relations practices in the Australia automotive assembly sector in the context of the globalization of the industry. While there has been convergence towards lean production principles among the four auto assemblers, arising from global trends, there has also been divergence resulting from enterprise bargaining, among other variables. Strong similarities are apparent between the companies in areas such as work organization, skill formation and enterprise governance, whereas there are differences in remuneration and staffing practices. However, it remains to be seen whether decentralized bargaining will continue to yield greater differentiation in employment relations among the automotive manufacturers in an increasingly globalized industry.

Adaptive enterprise design: The sense‐and‐respond model

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Haeckel
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Design ◽  
Sense And Respond

Enterprise Governance Toolset

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-181
Author(s):  
Charles B. Keating ◽  
Polinpapilinho F. Katina
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Governance

scholarly journals Votes at work in Britain: shareholder monopolisation and the ‘single channel’

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewan McGaughey
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Board Governance ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Enterprise Governance

Why do shareholders monopolise voting rights in UK companies, and are trade unions the only way to get meaningful workplace representation? In 1967 a Labour Party policy document first coined the phrase that a ‘single channel’ for representation should ‘in the normal’ case mean trade unions. Since then, it has been said the labour movement embraced an ‘adversarial’ rather than a ‘constitutional’ conception of corporations, neglecting legal rights to worker voice in enterprise governance. This article shows that matters were not so simple. It explains the substantial history of legal rights to vote in British workplaces, and competition from the rival constitutional conception: employee share schemes. The UK has the oldest corporations – namely universities – which have consistently embedded worker participation rights in law. Britain has among the world’s most sophisticated ‘second channel’ participation rights in pension board governance. Developing with collective bargaining, it had the world’s first private corporations with legal participation rights. Although major plans in the 1920s for codetermination in rail and coal fell through, it maintained a ‘third channel’ of worker representatives on boards during the 20th century in numerous sectors, including ports, gas, post, steel, and buses. At different points every major political party had general proposals for votes at work. The narrative of the ‘single channel’ of workplace representation, and an ‘adversarial’ conception of the company contains some truth, but there has never been one size of regulation for all forms of enterprise. (2018) 47(1) Industrial Law Journal 76.

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