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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Conditions for cross-professional union coalition-building: When enough is enough, but solidarity also has its limits!	37
Humanistic governance in worker cooperatives: Unlocking collective capacities	26
Employer strategies for undermining migrants’ power resources: Evidence from the Danish construction sector	23
Editorial	20
The impact of human resource management practices on managerial work: Institutional constraints, strategic actions and organizational outcomes	19
The union participation construct: A mixed-methods assessment	18
Who are the union free-riders in Ireland? Evidence from the Working in Ireland Survey	18
Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies	17
Qualitative job insecurity and voice behavior: Evaluation of the mediating effect of affective organizational commitment	16
Pedagogies of Unlearning: Towards a feminist and decolonial prefigurative politics of life’s work	15
The changing meaning of wage bargaining in Sweden since the 1960s: A contextual approach to shifts in industrial relations	14
Editorial	12
Prisoners of oath: Junior doctors’ professional identities during and after industrial action	11
Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment	11
Local labour markets, workforce planning and underemployment	10
The struggle for industrial democracy in Sweden: A sociological macro-meso analysis 1960–2020	9
Does employee representation foster employees’ experience of workplace democracy?	9
The emergence of labour utopias: Solidarity, visibility and agency in the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union strike	9
The hidden costs of flexibility: A comparative study of OHS outcomes in using temporary agency work	9
Trade unions and the digitalisation of admin work in public services: An international comparative analysis of the hospital sector	9
The Global Union Federations and their affiliates: Constrained agency in action	9
The reciprocal relationships between quantitative job insecurity, job satisfaction, and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic: A three-wave cross-lagged panel study	8
Attenuating the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction: An examination of the role of organizational learning climate in three countries	8
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	8
Membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany	8

Wage determination in the shadow of the law: The case of works councilors in Germany	8
Social partnership, company-level collective bargaining and union revitalization in Ireland	8
Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Resistance, accommodation, or assimilation? The contested role of worker solidarity in food delivery platforms	7
Union strategies in the digitalized post and logistics sector: A global qualitative survey	7
Editorial	7
Editorial	6
The loyalty trap in long-term care	6
Feeling safe to speak up: Leaders improving employee wellbeing through psychological safety	6
Intersectionality and trade unions: A tale of class and identity?	6
Flexicurity and self-perceived work–life balance in the EU27: A repeated cross-sectional multilevel analysis	6
Exploring the practice of coping among non-EU migrant care workers in the UK	6
Precarity and resource depletion in aviation: Job insecurity and workplace health and safety hazards	6
Challenges and potentials of evaluating platform work against established job-quality measures	6
Editorial	5
The Long-Lasting Stress Scale (LLSS): Psychometric evaluation of a brief stress scale in the SLOSH cohort study	5
Menstrual health and employment law, with a special focus on the new regulation in Spain	5
Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem	5
Can strike action revitalize labour unions? An empirical analysis of the Chilean case	5
New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work	5
Employment and well-being after plant closure: Survey evidence from Switzerland on the mid and long run	5
The dynamics shaping experiences and prospects of employer coordination in a Liberal Market Economy: The case of Scotland	4
Self-employment experience effects on well-being: A longitudinal study	4
Smart manufacturing and tasks automation in the steel industry: Reflecting on routine work and skills in Industry 4.0	4
The dual discourse phenomenon and its deep logic in the rights protection of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta	4
Why are (financialised) workers becoming more resigned and conformist and less claimant? Empirical evidence from Portugal	4
Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: Finding Customs in Common ?	4
The multidimensional configuration of platform work: A mixed-methods analysis of the Argentinian case	4
Editorial	4
Opening the black box of works council–management team interaction: Germany and the Netherlands compared	4
The union default: Increasing union membership by facilitating the experience of unionism and overcoming the role of inertia	4
Covid-19 and health and safety at work: Trade union dilemmas in Germany, France and Luxembourg (March 2020–December 2021)	4
Pressed to overwork to exhaustion? The role of psychological detachment and exhaustion in the context of teleworking	4
Digital skills in context: Working with robots in lower-skilled jobs	3
The moral economy of solidarity: A study of the 2017 hunger strike in Mauritius	3
Transnational labour governance: Crafting the authority and regulatory effectiveness of global agreements	3
Editorial	3
Have low-paid jobs increased in the Swedish labor market? Defining low pay in the context of the Nordic model	3
Editorial	3
An old recipe, with a new spice: Union avoidance tactics adopted by organized crime when expanding in new territories	3
Employee voice at board level: Responses to the revised UK Corporate Governance Code and the prospects for workplace democracy	3
Using a moral economy perspective to understand working-class finance and the decline of home credit in the United Kingdom	3
‘With the law behind us’: Resource mobilisation and legal repertoires in the Peruvian labour movement	3
Elucidating the relationship between high-investment HR systems and workforce engagement: The role of employee education	3
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	3
Self-representation and non-union employee representation: Implications for a union default	2
Editorial	2
A just transition: Insights from the labour unions of a steel locality (Taranto, Italy)	2
The difficult practice of just transition: Trade unions’ strategy and on-the-ground action in the Italian food industry	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

The influence of children on female underemployment in Australia	2
The union experience: Workplace instrumentality, prosocial unionism, and union satisfaction	2
Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands	2
Power resources, institutional legacy and labour standards transformation: Lessons from two developing countries	2
Unions divided? Trade union attitudes towards the European Union’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages	2
Trade unions and the demographic challenge: Their role in pension system and work life reforms	2
The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity	2
Decisions to enrol in employee stock ownership plans: When experiences become a habit	2
Female underemployment in Australia: Do offspring (children) matter?	2
Trapped in contradiction: Precariousness and the ideological orientations of younger workers in hospitality-related occupations	2
A chain of workers’ struggles: How labour protests spread in time and space	2
Trust in ‘the Swedish model’: Exploring relational, institutional and personal trust in Swedish industrial relations	1
Uncharted territories: Exploring employment relations in the FinTech (sub)sector in Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands and Sweden	1
Organizational restructuring, precarious employment and work intensification: Women managers’ experience of work under neoliberalism	1
Context matters: The meaning of organizational context in managers’ leadership behavior and subordinates’ perceptions of leadership	1
Handling the organizing paradox: A multiple case study of German cooperatives	1
The moral economy of the rich	1
Whistleblowing – an extension of working life democracy? The case of Norway	1
Gender dynamics in dual-earner couples: Spousal occupational status and working hours	1
Robert Owen, utopian socialism and labour law	1
Better off solo? Comparative well-being of Māori employers, sole traders and paid employees	1
Work values and hybrid careers in the gig economy: The evidence from an online labor market	1
Collaborative welding robots and their impact on welders’ work experience in the UK	1
Job insecurity and health and well-being: What happens when you really need or love your job?	1
Firm-level technology implementation and finding a new job: The moderating role of industry unionization	1
Towards what end? Collective bargaining and the making and unmaking of the working class	1
Transformative or reproductive labour actions in online food delivery services? Reworking and resilience practices in the global North and global South	1
Disaggregating the liberal market economies: Institutions and HRM	1
Deep freezing the labour market through job retention schemes during the pandemic: Exploring contemporary Scandinavian crisis corporatism	1
Gender and power in occupational pensions: Trade union strategies and institutional constraints	1
Industrial relations and sectoral interests: Comparing extension of collective agreements in construction and shipyards in Norway	1
New technology and workers’ perceived impact on job quality: Does labor organization matter?	1
Precarious employment in Swedish retail 1990–2019: An intersectional analysis of patterns and consequences	1
Gender difference in workplace violence associated with job characteristics among civil servants: A nationwide Taiwan survey	1
Employee ownership and attitudes: The role of selection effects	1
Envisioning waste utopias to create dignified waste work	1
Workplace regimes in Western Europe, 1995–2015: Implications for intensification, intrusion, income and insecurity	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
The idea of economic democracy in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s: Its proponents, predecessors, and critique	1
The active production of consent for employment precarity and the euphemisation of coercion in platform economies: The case of food delivery riders	1
Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19	1
We need more voices, not less! Promoting employee voice through transformational leadership: The mediating role of organization-based self-esteem	1
Rethinking work and its organisation through the lens of William Morris	1
EP Thompson’s moral economy and legacy	1
Unraveling opportunism in platform-mediated work within the Nordic working life model: An institutional complexity perspective	1
Regulatory influence on the overall quality of platform work: Lessons from the Chilean context	1
Self-surveillance practices of factory women migrant workers receiving SRH interventions in Malaysia: The effects of salience, gendered subjectivity and universalism	1
Patriarchal constraints and women’s employment: An analysis of the Mexican labour market	1
Institutional work within the boundaries of multi-stakeholder initiatives: The relational agency of implementing partners and women cotton-pickers in practice change	1
What makes employees and managers see eye to eye concerning organizational justice? Predicting congruence in the Swedish pay-setting context	1
Is occupation insecurity associated with conspiracy views? A test of parallel mediation through political powerlessness and relative deprivation	1