OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economic and Industrial Democracy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	78
The union participation construct: A mixed-methods assessment	61
Conditions for cross-professional union coalition-building: When enough is enough, but solidarity also has its limits!	25
Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies	18
Qualitative job insecurity and voice behavior: Evaluation of the mediating effect of affective organizational commitment	15
The impact of human resource management practices on managerial work: Institutional constraints, strategic actions and organizational outcomes	14
Humanistic governance in worker cooperatives: Unlocking collective capacities	13
Employer strategies for undermining migrants’ power resources: Evidence from the Danish construction sector	13
Who are the union free-riders in Ireland? Evidence from the Working in Ireland Survey	13
Editorial	12
Power resource theory revisited: The perils and promises for understanding contemporary labour politics	12
Local labour markets, workforce planning and underemployment	11
Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment	11
Prisoners of oath: Junior doctors’ professional identities during and after industrial action	11
The Global Union Federations and their affiliates: Constrained agency in action	11
The reciprocal relationships between quantitative job insecurity, job satisfaction, and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic: A three-wave cross-lagged panel study	10
Wage determination in the shadow of the law: The case of works councilors in Germany	10
The hidden costs of flexibility: A comparative study of OHS outcomes in using temporary agency work	10
Why are employees most susceptible to automation least likely to retrain? Automation risks and inequalities in learning intention, perceived opportunities, and learning participation among employee gr	10
How effective are mobility subsidies in targeting the unemployed? Lessons from the Swedish Model, 1965–1975	9
The struggle for industrial democracy in Sweden: A sociological macro-meso analysis 1960–2020	9
Membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany	9
Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Trade unions and the digitalisation of admin work in public services: An international comparative analysis of the hospital sector	9
Attenuating the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction: An examination of the role of organizational learning climate in three countries	8

The job insecurity of others: On the role of perceived national job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Social partnership, company-level collective bargaining and union revitalization in Ireland	7
Employer associations: Climate change, power and politics	7
Feeling safe to speak up: Leaders improving employee wellbeing through psychological safety	6
Occupational change, computer use and the complementarity effect in the digital age: Evidence from Finland	6
Editorial	6
Challenges and potentials of evaluating platform work against established job-quality measures	6
Job satisfaction across Europe: An analysis of the heterogeneous temporary workforce in 27 countries	6
Flexicurity and self-perceived work–life balance in the EU27: A repeated cross-sectional multilevel analysis	6
Editorial	6
The hidden layers of resistance to dominant HRM transfer: Evidence from Japanese management practice adoption in Indonesia	5
Employers’ views on flexible employment contracts for younger workers: Benefits, downsides and societal outlook	5
Employment and well-being after plant closure: Survey evidence from Switzerland on the mid and long run	5
New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work	5
Opening the black box of works council–management team interaction: Germany and the Netherlands compared	5
Covid-19 and health and safety at work: Trade union dilemmas in Germany, France and Luxembourg (March 2020–December 2021)	5
Editorial	5
Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem	5
Why are (financialised) workers becoming more resigned and conformist and less claimant? Empirical evidence from Portugal	5
The dynamics shaping experiences and prospects of employer coordination in a Liberal Market Economy: The case of Scotland	5
Can strike action revitalize labour unions? An empirical analysis of the Chilean case	5
The Long-Lasting Stress Scale (LLSS): Psychometric evaluation of a brief stress scale in the SLOSH cohort study	5
The union default: Increasing union membership by facilitating the experience of unionism and overcoming the role of inertia	4
Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: Finding Customs in Common?	4
Self-employment experience effects on well-being: A longitudinal study	4
The dual discourse phenomenon and its deep logic in the rights protection of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta	4
The multidimensional configuration of platform work: A mixed-methods analysis of the Argentinian case	4
The condition of European economic democracy: A comparative analysis of individual and collective employment rights	4
Using a moral economy perspective to understand working-class finance and the decline of home credit in the United Kingdom	4
Editorial	4
Smart manufacturing and tasks automation in the steel industry: Reflecting on routine work and skills in Industry 4.0	4
Have low-paid jobs increased in the Swedish labor market? Defining low pay in the context of the Nordic model	4
Managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry, 1947–1994	3
‘With the law behind us’: Resource mobilisation and legal repertoires in the Peruvian labour movement	3
Editorial	3
The moral economy of solidarity: A study of the 2017 hunger strike in Mauritius	3
Pressed to overwork to exhaustion? The role of psychological detachment and exhaustion in the context of teleworking	3
Editorial	3
Digital skills in context: Working with robots in lower-skilled jobs	3
Why do labour platforms negotiate? Platform strategies in tax-based welfare states	3
Can labor-standards advocacy by transnational civil society organizations interact with the power of labor to improve labor standards in global supply chains? A case study of the Cambodian garment ind	3
Elucidating the relationship between high-investment HR systems and workforce engagement: The role of employee education	3
An old recipe, with a new spice: Union avoidance tactics adopted by organized crime when expanding in new territories	3
Context matters: The meaning of organizational context in managers’ leadership behavior and subordinates’ perceptions of leadership	2
Trade unions and the demographic challenge: Their role in pension system and work life reforms	2
Editorial	2
Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: A roundtable with Dr Melissa Beresford, Professor Andrew Sayer and Professor Neville Kirk, chaired by Professor Robert McMaster	2
The difficult practice of just transition: Trade unions’ strategy and on-the-ground action in the Italian food industry	2
Female underemployment in Australia: Do offspring (children) matter?	2
Unions divided? Trade union attitudes towards the European Union’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages	2

A just transition: Insights from the labour unions of a steel locality (Taranto, Italy)	2
Employee voice at board level: Responses to the revised UK Corporate Governance Code and the prospects for workplace democracy	2
The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity	2
Do participation structures affect workers’ voice?	2
Digital Taylorism in China’s e-commerce industry: A case study of internet professionals	2
The influence of the political attitudes of workers and the effect of the Great Recession on the decision to join a trade union in Southern Europe	2
We need more voices, not less! Promoting employee voice through transformational leadership: The mediating role of organization-based self-esteem	2
Power resources, institutional legacy and labour standards transformation: Lessons from two developing countries	2
The union experience: Workplace instrumentality, prosocial unionism, and union satisfaction	2
Transnational labour governance: Crafting the authority and regulatory effectiveness of global agreements	2
Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands	2
Self-surveillance practices of factory women migrant workers receiving SRH interventions in Malaysia: The effects of salience, gendered subjectivity and universalism	1
What makes employees and managers see eye to eye concerning organizational justice? Predicting congruence in the Swedish pay-setting context	1
Better off solo? Comparative well-being of Māori employers, sole traders and paid employees	1
‘What damage could a small breeze do to a fence?’ The lack of collective action on ride-hailing platforms in Berlin and Tallinn	1
Towards what end? Collective bargaining and the making and unmaking of the working class	1
Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19	1
Disaggregating the liberal market economies: Institutions and HRM	1
Why does Germany abstain from statutory bargaining extensions? Explaining the exceptional German erosion of collective wage bargaining	1
The idea of economic democracy in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s: Its proponents, predecessors, and critique	1
Job insecurity and health and well-being: What happens when you really need or love your job?	1
The moderated mediation role of the extension in the relationship between union density and bargaining coverage	1
Gender difference in workplace violence associated with job characteristics among civil servants: A nationwide Taiwan survey	1
The effects of public goods framing for a union default policy	1
Handling the organizing paradox: A multiple case study of German cooperatives	1
Firm-level technology implementation and finding a new job: The moderating role of industry unionization	1
Perceived identity threat and organizational cynicism in the recursive relationship between psychological contract breach and counterproductive work behavior	1
Nappies, books and wrinkles: How children, qualifications and age affect female underemployment in Australia	1
Organizational restructuring, precarious employment and work intensification: Women managers’ experience of work under neoliberalism	1
Strikes and lockouts: The need to separate labour conflicts	1
Was it worth it? The impact of the German minimum wage on union membership of employees	1
The moral economy of the rich	1
New technology and workers’ perceived impact on job quality: Does labor organization matter?	1
Work values and hybrid careers in the gig economy: The evidence from an online labor market	1
Deep freezing the labour market through job retention schemes during the pandemic: Exploring contemporary Scandinavian crisis corporatism	1
EP Thompson’s moral economy and legacy	1
Uncharted territories: Exploring employment relations in the FinTech (sub)sector in Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands and Sweden	1
Institutional work within the boundaries of multi-stakeholder initiatives: The relational agency of implementing partners and women cotton-pickers in practice change	1
Transformative or reproductive labour actions in online food delivery services? Reworking and resilience practices in the global North and global South	1
The active production of consent for employment precarity and the euphemisation of coercion in platform economies: The case of food delivery riders	1
Workplace regimes in Western Europe, 1995–2015: Implications for intensification, intrusion, income and insecurity	1
Trapped in contradiction: Precariousness and the ideological orientations of younger workers in hospitality-related occupations	1
Is occupation insecurity associated with conspiracy views? A test of parallel mediation through political powerlessness and relative deprivation	1
Unraveling opportunism in platform-mediated work within the Nordic working life model: An institutional complexity perspective	1
Editorial	1