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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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	29
Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies	25
The union participation construct: A mixed-methods assessment	21
Qualitative job insecurity and voice behavior: Evaluation of the mediating effect of affective organizational commitment	20
Editorial	18
Employer strategies for undermining migrants’ power resources: Evidence from the Danish construction sector	18
The impact of human resource management practices on managerial work: Institutional constraints, strategic actions and organizational outcomes	17
Local labour markets, workforce planning and underemployment	11
Who are the union free-riders in Ireland? Evidence from the Working in Ireland Survey	11
The hidden costs of flexibility: A comparative study of OHS outcomes in using temporary agency work	10
Prisoners of oath: Junior doctors’ professional identities during and after industrial action	9
Pedagogies of Unlearning: Towards a feminist and decolonial prefigurative politics of life’s work	9
Editorial	9
The Global Union Federations and their affiliates: Constrained agency in action	9
The changing meaning of wage bargaining in Sweden since the 1960s: A contextual approach to shifts in industrial relations	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	9
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
Does employee representation foster employees’ experience of workplace democracy?	8
The struggle for industrial democracy in Sweden: A sociological macro-meso analysis 1960–2020	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
The emergence of labour utopias: Solidarity, visibility and agency in the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union strike	8
Trade unions and the digitalisation of admin work in public services: An international comparative analysis of the hospital sector	8
Attenuating the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction: An examination of the role of organizational learning climate in three countries	7

Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Union strategies in the digitalized post and logistics sector: A global qualitative survey	7
Resistance, accommodation, or assimilation? The contested role of worker solidarity in food delivery platforms	6
Challenges and potentials of evaluating platform work against established job-quality measures	6
The loyalty trap in long-term care	6
Editorial	6
Feeling safe to speak up: Leaders improving employee wellbeing through psychological safety	6
Precarity and resource depletion in aviation: Job insecurity and workplace health and safety hazards	6
Editorial	6
Exploring the practice of coping among non-EU migrant care workers in the UK	6
Intersectionality and trade unions: A tale of class and identity?	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
Why are (financialised) workers becoming more resigned and conformist and less claimant? Empirical evidence from Portugal	5
Flexicurity and self-perceived work–life balance in the EU27: A repeated cross-sectional multilevel analysis	5
Editorial	5
Opening the black box of works council–management team interaction: Germany and the Netherlands compared	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 Long-Lasting Stress Scale (LLSS): Psychometric evaluation of a brief stress scale in the SLOSH cohort study	5
The dynamics shaping experiences and prospects of employer coordination in a Liberal Market Economy: The case of Scotland	5
The dual discourse phenomenon and its deep logic in the rights protection of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta	4
Smart manufacturing and tasks automation in the steel industry: Reflecting on routine work and skills in Industry 4.0	4
Menstrual health and employment law, with a special focus on the new regulation in Spain	4
Covid-19 and health and safety at work: Trade union dilemmas in Germany, France and Luxembourg (March 2020–December 2021)	4
Editorial	4
The multidimensional configuration of platform work: A mixed-methods analysis of the Argentinian case	4
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
Editorial	3
Editorial	3
Elucidating the relationship between high-investment HR systems and workforce engagement: The role of employee education	3
Caring for the carers: Organizational support, job crafting, and job satisfaction in a unionized worker cooperative	3
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
The difficult practice of just transition: Trade unions’ strategy and on-the-ground action in the Italian food industry	3
Have low-paid jobs increased in the Swedish labor market? Defining low pay in the context of the Nordic model	3
‘With the law behind us’: Resource mobilisation and legal repertoires in the Peruvian labour movement	3
An old recipe, with a new spice: Union avoidance tactics adopted by organized crime when expanding in new territories	3
Transnational labour governance: Crafting the authority and regulatory effectiveness of global agreements	3
Using a moral economy perspective to understand working-class finance and the decline of home credit in the United Kingdom	3
A chain of workers’ struggles: How labour protests spread in time and space	2
Employee voice at board level: Responses to the revised UK Corporate Governance Code and the prospects for workplace democracy	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
Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands	2
The influence of children on female underemployment in Australia	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
Female underemployment in Australia: Do offspring (children) matter?	2
The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity	2
The union experience: Workplace instrumentality, prosocial unionism, and union satisfaction	2

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