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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Power resource theory revisited: The perils and promises for understanding contemporary labour politics	39
Do robots really destroy jobs? Evidence from Europe	33
The ‘indie unions’ and the UK labour movement: Towards a community of practice	16
Flexible working practices and job-related anxiety: Examining the roles of trust in management and job autonomy	16
Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19	14
Why does Germany abstain from statutory bargaining extensions? Explaining the exceptional German erosion of collective wage bargaining	12
Why do labour platforms negotiate? Platform strategies in tax-based welfare states	9
Works councils and workplace health promotion in Germany	9
Employers’ views on flexible employment contracts for younger workers: Benefits, downsides and societal outlook	9
Digital skills in context: Working with robots in lower-skilled jobs	9
The promise of flexicurity: Can employment and income security mitigate the negative effects of job insecurity?	8
Digital Taylorism in China’s e-commerce industry: A case study of internet professionals	8
The job insecurity of others: On the role of perceived national job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Economic and political determinants of the South African labour share, 1971–2019	8
Membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany	7
Institutional complementarities and technological transformation: IVET responsiveness to Industry 4.0 – meeting emerging skill needs in the European steel industry	7
In search of the ‘buffering’ effect in the job demands–control model: The role of teamwork HRM practices and occupations	7
The evolving perspectives on the Chinese labour regime in Africa	7
Neoliberalisation of industrial relations: The ideational development of Dutch employers’ organisations between 1976 and 2019	7
Automation and the future of work: An intersectional study of the role of human capital, income, gender and visible minority status	6
Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment	6
Not so exceptional? Prosocial influences on union support among US workers	6
Somewhat more than path dependence: The Spanish employers’ peak organisation and social dialogue in light of the crisis of the industrial relations system	6
Job satisfaction across Europe: An analysis of the heterogeneous temporary workforce in 27 countries	6
Self-employment experience effects on well-being: A longitudinal study	6

Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?	5
Public support for a union default: Predicting factors and implications for public policy	5
Perceived identity threat and organizational cynicism in the recursive relationship between psychological contract breach and counterproductive work behavior	5
Was it worth it? The impact of the German minimum wage on union membership of employees	5
Victory through defence: Employers’ policy preferences and success in the industrial democracy reform process in Finland, 1960s–1970s	5
Everything we do know (and don’t know) about collective bargaining: The Zeitgeist in the academic and political debate on the role and effects of collective bargaining	5
Pressed to overwork to exhaustion? The role of psychological detachment and exhaustion in the context of teleworking	5
The multidimensional configuration of platform work: A mixed-methods analysis of the Argentinian case	5
Work values and hybrid careers in the gig economy: The evidence from an online labor market	5
It takes change to remain the same: The transformation of Swedish government policy making in economic crises and the involvement of social partners	5
‘I feel like I’m in poverty. I don’t do much outside of work other than survive’: In-work poverty and multiple employment in the UK	5
Labour market collectivism: New solidarities of highly skilled freelance workers in medicine, IT and the film industry	4
Trade union influence on innovation in the British private sector: Direct and indirect paths	4
Qualitative job insecurity and voice behavior: Evaluation of the mediating effect of affective organizational commitment	4
Managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry, 1947–1994	4
‘Mining women’ and livelihoods: Examining the dominant and emerging issues in the ASM gendered economic space	4
Two roads diverged: Legal context and changing levels of private and public sector union density in the US states, 1984–2019	4
Works councils and the digitalisation of manufacturing: Opportunity or threat for their power position?	4
Factors influencing union effectiveness in the public service in Zambia: Associations and mediating effect	4
Turnover intentions, training and motivations among Australian union staff	3
Does the household context matter for job satisfaction among low-wage workers?	3
The condition of European economic democracy: A comparative analysis of individual and collective employment rights	3
Qualitative job insecurity and extra-role behaviours: The moderating role of work motivation and perceived investment in employee development	3
Empowerment as a pre-requisite to managing and influencing health in the workplace: The sexual and reproductive health needs of factory women migrant workers in Malaysia	3
The gendered effect of an overwork climate and high personal standards for work–home conflict during the pandemic	3
Commitment issues? Analysing the effect of preference deviation and social embeddedness on member commitment to worker cooperatives in the gig economy	3
Re-configuring the jigsaw puzzle: Balancing time, pace, place and space of work in the Covid-19 era	3
Occupational change, computer use and the complementarity effect in the digital age: Evidence from Finland	3
Extending the boundaries of alternative dispute resolution: Private dispute resolution in Irish industrial relations	3
Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The fragmenting occupation of labour inspection and the degradation of regulatory and enforcement work inside the British state	3
Power resources, institutional legacy and labour standards transformation: Lessons from two developing countries	3
Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem	3
Winning a battle against the odds: A cleaners’ campaign	3
Challenges and potentials of evaluating platform work against established job-quality measures	3
Facing education reform: Change-related self-efficacy is linked to job insecurity via appraisal	3
Employer associations: Climate change, power and politics	3
Enforceability of rights in the temporary agency sector: The case of Belgium	3
The impact of job quality on organizational commitment and job satisfaction: The moderating role of socioeconomic status	3
The potential of a union default to influence the preferences and choices of non-union workers in unionised workplaces	3
Do participation structures affect workers’ voice?	3
Handling the organizing paradox: A multiple case study of German cooperatives	2
Self-initiated expatriates in menial jobs: Destructive psychological contracts in the hospitality sector	2
Collective labor relations and juridification: A marriage proposal	2
The role of socio-economic embeddedness in promoting cooperation in the workplace: Evidence from family-owned Italian firms	2
Disaggregating the liberal market economies: Institutions and HRM	2
Trapped in contradiction: Precariousness and the ideological orientations of younger workers in hospitality-related occupations	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 union experience: Workplace instrumentality, prosocial unionism, and union satisfaction	2
Workplace democracy and democratic legitimacy in Europe	2

Will they rise again? Four scenarios for the future of trade unions	2
Attenuating the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction: An examination of the role of organizational learning climate in three countries	2
Decoupling gender equality from gender pay audits in Swedish municipalities	2
‘The circle of life’: The role of life course in understanding job quality	2
A just transition: Insights from the labour unions of a steel locality (Taranto, Italy)	2
Flexicurity and self-perceived work–life balance in the EU27: A repeated cross-sectional multilevel analysis	2
Institutions or resources and capabilities? Explaining engagement in European sectoral social dialogue	2
The European Minimum Wage Directive – and why it is a challenge to trade unions’ but not employers’ unity	2
Union purpose and power: Regulating the fissured workplace	2
Does additional work experience moderate ethnic discrimination in the labour market?	2
Covid-19 and health and safety at work: Trade union dilemmas in Germany, France and Luxembourg (March 2020–December 2021)	2
Why don’t employers hire long-term unemployed entitled to a wage subsidy? The employer’s perspective on subsidised employment	2
The hidden layers of resistance to dominant HRM transfer: Evidence from Japanese management practice adoption in Indonesia	2
Employee voice at board level: Responses to the revised UK Corporate Governance Code and the prospects for workplace democracy	1
Sex, breadwinner status, and perceived job insecurity: A comparative analysis in Europe	1
Collectivism, individualism and solidarity in global value chain restructuring in the Global North: Workers’ resistance in the Swiss machinery industry	1
Demobilised or dormant? Exploring pro-strike attitudes among employees who have never joined a strike	1
Navigating self-managed conflict resolution: A case study	1
Riding together? Why app-mediated food delivery couriers join trade unions in Austria	1
The dynamics shaping experiences and prospects of employer coordination in a Liberal Market Economy: The case of Scotland	1
Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies	1
Generational differences in work attitudes: The role of union instrumentality and socioeconomic status	1
Towards what end? Collective bargaining and the making and unmaking of the working class	1
Workers buyout cooperatives: A structured literature review and a research agenda	1
Wage determination in the shadow of the law: The case of works councilors in Germany	1
Strikes and lockouts: The need to separate labour conflicts	1
Dynamic services, district magnitude, and the trilemma of the service economy	1
Workplace regimes in Western Europe, 1995–2015: Implications for intensification, intrusion, income and insecurity	1
So lucky to be paid on time! Downward social comparison and gratitude in crisis economy psychological contracts	1
Power resources and the battle against precarious employment: Trade union activities within a tripartite initiative tackling undeclared work in Sweden	1
Workplace discrimination against LGBT employees in Mauritius: A sociological perspective	1
Beyond democratic degeneration, horizontal and liberated organization? The agonistic approach of a Belgian food co-op	1
The dual discourse phenomenon and its deep logic in the rights protection of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta	1
Trade unions facing a French industrial policy: The emergence of a medical imaging filière	1
Supervisor and customer incivility as moderators of the relationship between job insecurity and work engagement: Evidence from a new context	1
New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work	1