Outsourcing, Delocalization and Firm Organization: Transaction Costs vs. Industrial Relations in a Local Production System of Emilia Romagna

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Mazzanti ◽  
Sandro Montresor ◽  
Paolo Pini
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Production System ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Firm Organization

Innovation, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations: Evidence for a Local Production System

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Antonioli ◽  
Massimiliano Mazzanti ◽  
Paolo Pini
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Production System ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Local Production

Does Outsourcing Increase Labour Productivity? Evidence for a Local Production System in Emilia Romagna (Italy)

2010 ◽  
pp. 257-279
Author(s):  
Sandro Montresor ◽  
Davide Antonioli ◽  
Massimiliano Mazzanti ◽  
Paolo Pini
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Local Production

scholarly journals Business Against Markets: Employer Resistance to Collective Bargaining Liberalization During the Eurozone Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Bulfone ◽  
Alexandre Afonso
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Wage Bargaining ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Euro Crisis ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Employment Conditions

Employer organizations have been presented as strong promoters of the liberalization of industrial relations in Europe. This article, in contrast, argues that the preferences of employers vis-à-vis liberalization are heterogeneous and documents how employer organizations in Spain, Italy, and Portugal have resisted state-led reforms to liberalize collective bargaining during the Euro crisis. It shows that the dominance of small firms in the economies of these countries make employer organizations supportive of selective aspects of sectoral bargaining and state regulation. Encompassing sectoral bargaining is important for small firms for three reasons: it limits industrial conflict, reduces transaction costs related to wage-bargaining, and ensures that member firms are not undercut by rivals offering lower wages and employment conditions. Furthermore, the maintenance of sectoral bargaining and its extension to whole sectors by the state is a matter of survival for employer organizations. The article presents rationales for employer opposition to liberalization that differ from the varieties of capitalism approach.

From Diaspora Traders to Shipping Tycoons: The Vagliano Bros.

2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gelina Harlaftis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Production System ◽  
International Market ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Ship Management ◽  
Religious Networks

This study traces the origins of the twentieth-century Greek shipping tycoons and their global business to the nineteenth-century Greek diaspora traders. It examines the distinct characteristics of a diaspora firm, which can be treated partially as a multinational or “free standing firm” with distinctive features. Based in the main European financial centers, diaspora traders were international operators who developed ethnic-religious networks with their own unofficial international market, enabling them to operate independently of the countries or states in which they were established. The Vagliano house is a prime example of a diaspora trading house that transformed itself into a major shipping and ship-management firm, paving the way for the global success of twentieth-century Greek-owned shipping. The Vagliano network integrated the Greek shipping sector into the international shipping production system by creating an institutional framework based on trust that minimized transaction costs and entrepreneurial risk and provided information flow.

The General Profile of the Outsourcing Firm: Evidence for a Local Production System of Emilia Romagna

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Mazzanti ◽  
Sandro Montresor ◽  
Paolo Pini
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Firm Evidence ◽  
General Profile

Restructuring Duisburg: A New Local Production System Substitutes an Old Steel Plant

2004 ◽  
pp. 139-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Glassman ◽  
Helmut Voelzkow
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Steel Plant ◽  
Local Production

Exploring the potential operation of a local tourism production system: The case of Messinia, Greece

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panayiotis Drakakis ◽  
Athanasios Papadaskalopoulos ◽  
Manolis Christofakis
Keyword(s):  
Production System ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Accurate Assessment ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Business Survey ◽  
Western Greece ◽  
Economic Linkages

The local tourism production system has been used in the literature as a territorial model to analyse a tourism destination and examine the interrelationships among its stakeholders. In this paper, we elaborate on this model by additionally analysing the economic linkages of the local tourism production system activities with local sectors, and seek to examine whether Messinia, a region in south-western Greece, fulfils the conditions for the operation of a local tourism production system. For this purpose, in conjunction with secondary data, 276 questionnaires were used from a business survey conducted via personal interviews at enterprises that are directly or indirectly affected by tourism. The results of the analysis show that our study area fulfils all four criteria set for the operation of such a system, though it does display strengths (high concentration of small- and medium-sized enterprises, strong economic linkages) and weaknesses (marginal specialisation, unsteady social ties). Meanwhile, the operation of a large tourism enterprise in the region does not act competitively but rather as a propulsive activity to the local tourism production system, thus supporting the notion that a large enterprise can boost a local production system and extending it within the tourism context. The paper concludes that investigating the economic linkages of the local tourism production system activities allows for a more accurate assessment of its operation, which in our case could be further enhanced by establishing a focal actor in a tourism network or cluster.

The Influence of Industrial Relations Factors on U.S. Foreign Direct Investment Abroad

ILR Review ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
William N. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
Investment Decision Making

Although managers of multinational companies have identified labor practices and regulations, access to skilled labor, and similar factors as important considerations in foreign direct investment decision-making, few studies have empirically examined the influence of industrial relations factors on foreign direct investment. Applying a transaction costs framework to U.S. Department of Commerce data published in 1992, the author examines the influence of several key industrial relations variables on U.S. foreign direct investment across nine industries and nineteen OECD-member countries. Across the countries studied, U.S. foreign direct investment was negatively affected by the presence of high levels of union penetration, centralized collective bargaining structures, stiff government restrictions on layoffs, and pervasive contract extension policies; it was positively affected by high levels of education and policies requiring works councils.

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