scholarly journals Labour relations, collective bargaining and employee voice in SMEs in central and eastern Europe

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miklós Illessy ◽  
Vassil Kirov ◽  
Csaba Makó ◽  
Svetla Stoeva
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Employee Voice ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Employee Representation ◽  
The Relationship

Drawing upon the examples of Bulgaria and Hungary, this article explores employee representation and voice in SMEs in central and eastern Europe in the context of the spectacular development of the SME sector during the post-1990 transition and associated changes in labour relations and collective bargaining practices. The article examines the relationship between the regulation of employment relations and employee representation and voice. It suggests that the absence of formal channels of representation in SMEs hides the existence of a number of informal compromises between employers and employees over matters such as wages, working time, and health and safety conditions. The authors argue that future trade union strategies should be based on a clear understanding of these social realities.

Employee Rights and Labour Relations in Central and Eastern Europe

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 343-356
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Skorupinska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Employee Rights ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Employee Representation ◽  
New Form

Transformation of economies in Central and Eastern Europe countries has not been accompanied by sufficient guarantees for social dimension. Following that, the economic recession has particularly badly affected these countries. However, well-functioning social dialogue and regulated labour relations with well developed employee rights are the very bases of social guarantees. The analysis carried out in this paper leads to a conclusion that employee representation in workplaces in Central and Eastern Europe is still trade unions’ domain, in spite of the 2002 Directive’s implementation and (in general) dual system of worker representation in these countries. Initially, trade unions were afraid of the competition from works councils. With the passing of time, they toned down their inimical attitude towards these institutions. However, employees have not completely accepted the new form of worker participation yet and the number of works councils in these countries is still relatively small.

Political thought in Central and Eastern Europe: The open society, its friends, and enemies*

2021 ◽  
pp. 147488512110496
Author(s):  
Aurelian Craiutu ◽  
Stefan Kolev
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Illiberal Democracy ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Relationship

A review essay of key works and trends in the political thought of Central and Eastern Europe, before and after 1989. The topics examined include the nature of the 1989 velvet revolutions in the region, debates on civil society, democratization, the relationship between politics, economics, and culture, nationalism, legal reform, feminism, and “illiberal democracy.” The review essay concludes with an assessment of the most recent trends in the region.

scholarly journals Does Technological Innovation Drive Corporate Sustainability? Empirical Evidence for the European Financial Industry in Catching-Up and Central and Eastern Europe Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Sempere-Ripoll ◽  
Sofia Estelles-Miguel ◽  
Ronald Rojas-Alvarado ◽  
Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Community Innovation Survey ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The Relationship

In the financial industry, two relationships are well-researched: (i) innovation and financial performance and, (ii) sustainability and financial performance, both focused primarily on Western and advanced countries. The relationship between innovation and sustainability, however, is underresearched. This study’s purpose consists of determining whether there is a relationship between innovation and corporate sustainability in the financial industry. In doing so, this study responds to a critical question: are the most innovative firms also the most sustainability-oriented? We empirically explore sustainability-oriented innovation in the financial industry of 11 catching-up countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data for 2012–2014, this study empirically analyzes a large sample of 1574 firms in the financial industry. Our results suggest that innovation is positively linked to corporate sustainability, pointing out that innovation capabilities are positively related to sustainability. Our study proposes a framework for analyzing innovation and sustainability from a capability-perspective.

scholarly journals The effect of radical right fringe parties on main parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Empirical evidence from manifesto data

2019 ◽  
pp. 135406881986362
Author(s):  
Reinhard Heinisch ◽  
Steven Saxonberg ◽  
Annika Werner ◽  
Fabian Habersack
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Party Manifestos ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sociocultural Issues

Do radical right fringe parties affect main parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? Using data from the Manifesto Project, we analyze the relationship between radical right fringe parties’ and main parties’ policy programs regarding sociocultural issues in six post-communist countries of CEE. Even though radical right fringe parties have participated in government in several of these countries, and in Hungary a fringe party has become the country’s second largest party, our analysis shows that the sociocultural issues in radical right fringe party manifestos do not systematically relate to the changes in main party manifestos regarding those issues. Even if some of the main parties in our study might often agree with the radical right fringe parties, our analysis shows that the latter do not directly influence the policy priorities of the main parties.

Employment Relations in Central and Eastern Europe in 2000: The Road to the EU

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick Martin ◽  
Anamaria Cristescu‐Martin
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Changements technologiques et rapports collectifs du travail

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-37
Author(s):  
André C. Côté
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Teleological Interpretation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper focusses on the relationship between technological change and the labour relations system circumscribed by the Québec Labour Code. While a teleological interpretation of bargaining rights of certified associations by labour jurisdictions seems to have dealt adequately with the impact of such changes on certification, the doctrine of residual management rights, in the context of fixed-term agreements entrenched in the Québec Labour Code, appears to be, in the opinion of the author, unduly rigid and restrictive. The Freedman Report on Railway run-through and the subsequent discussions surrounding the Woods Commission Report in the 1960's, resulted in the inclusion in the Canada Labour Code of provisions pertaining to the possible adjustment, through collective bargaining, of collective agreements in the context of such technological changes. Various provisions to the same effect have subsequently been inserted in the Labour Codes of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British-Columbia. The Report of the Beaudry Commission recently proposed that the Québec Labour Code be similary modified by the inclusion of analoguous provisions. The author suggests that a reform along the lines thus suggested is, in principle, desirable to ensure a more equitable adaptability of our legal categories to the imperatives of technological change.

scholarly journals Western Donors, Romani Organizations, and Uses of the Concept of Nation after 1989

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-45
Author(s):  
Douglas Neander Sambati
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship between Western donors and Romani and Romani-friendly organizations in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. Based on literature review, interviews, reports, and websites, this paper upholds that the burst of Romani and Romani-friendly organizations in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 primarily was made possible by financial support and expertise coming from Western organizations. Together with their work methodology, so-called donors took their own framework on  understanding groupings and enforced the concept of nation upon Gypsy/Romani populations. Therefore, Western donors and Romani activists and intellectuals alike essentialized (claimed) Gypsy/Romani traits in order to support a nation-building rhetoric. These Romani activists and intellectuals, in turn, are a legacy of policies from planned economies, and they actually might represent Gypsy/Romani communities from a privileged perspective – no longer fully insiders but as a vanguard.

scholarly journals Between Individual Memory and Social Memory. What Do People in Poland Remember About 1989?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aneta Ostaszewska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

30 years have passed since the events of 1989 that led to the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the paper the themes of social memory of political transformation in Poland in 1989 are discussed. The content of online statements collected from popular Polish news portals are analysed. When asking the question what events and experiences do Poles bring back when they think of 1989, I am interested in the relationship between the individual (biographical) memory and collective memory – the socially reconstructed knowledge of the past.

scholarly journals Against the Current

Poliarchia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 93-131
Author(s):  
Emma Klever
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
The Relationship

The political reality of the European Union is not reflected in the general discourse on the relationship between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe, which is characterized by an adverse attitude towards the latter. This impacts identity construction on the European level, where Central and Eastern Europe has long been regarded as the “Other” against which the European “self ” was defined. However, a new discourse on this relationship has emerged in literary works written by scholars and journalists that are able to take an overarching perspective. The present study analyses four publications to see how the relationship between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe is portrayed in terms of the self and the Other, employing the Discourse Historical Approach and a spectrum of the self and the Other perspectives. It emerges that the discussed authors share a discourse which respects differences, focuses on similarities as well as differences and shows an awareness of the interwovenness of the narratives of the self and the Other. This new, shared discourse holds directions for the further development of a European-wide discourse that includes the same notions of respect and the interwovenness of narratives, and which could in turn influence European identity construction.

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