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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Employer strategies for undermining migrants’ power resources: Evidence from the Danish construction sector	68
Who are the union free-riders in Ireland? Evidence from the Working in Ireland Survey	58
Editorial	21
Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies	16
Between entrepreneurs and workers: Cleavages and compromises in rationales and policy solutions regarding ‘dependent contractors’	13
The impact of human resource management practices on managerial work: Institutional constraints, strategic actions and organizational outcomes	12
The union participation construct: A mixed-methods assessment	12
Power resource theory revisited: The perils and promises for understanding contemporary labour politics	11
Qualitative job insecurity and voice behavior: Evaluation of the mediating effect of affective organizational commitment	11
The Global Union Federations and their affiliates: Constrained agency in action	11
Conditions for cross-professional union coalition-building: When enough is enough, but solidarity also has its limits!	11
Editorial	10
The hidden costs of flexibility: A comparative study of OHS outcomes in using temporary agency work	10
Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment	10
Local labour markets, workforce planning and underemployment	10
Prisoners of oath: Junior doctors’ professional identities during and after industrial action	10
The struggle for industrial democracy in Sweden: A sociological macro-meso analysis 1960–2020	9
Neoliberalisation of industrial relations: The ideational development of Dutch employers’ organisations between 1976 and 2019	9
Wage determination in the shadow of the law: The case of works councilors in Germany	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	9
Victory through defence: Employers’ policy preferences and success in the industrial democracy reform process in Finland, 1960s–1970s	9
Membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany	8
The job insecurity of others: On the role of perceived national job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Entrepreneurial action and eudaimonic well-being in a crisis: Insights from entrepreneurs in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
How effective are mobility subsidies in targeting the unemployed? Lessons from the Swedish Model, 1965–1975	8

Attenuating the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction: An examination of the role of organizational learning climate in three countries	8
Social partnership, company-level collective bargaining and union revitalization in Ireland	7
Editorial	7
Employer associations: Climate change, power and politics	7
Challenges and potentials of evaluating platform work against established job-quality measures	6
Flexicurity and self-perceived work–life balance in the EU27: A repeated cross-sectional multilevel analysis	6
Editorial	6
Job satisfaction across Europe: An analysis of the heterogeneous temporary workforce in 27 countries	6
Occupational change, computer use and the complementarity effect in the digital age: Evidence from Finland	6
Feeling safe to speak up: Leaders improving employee wellbeing through psychological safety	6
The hidden layers of resistance to dominant HRM transfer: Evidence from Japanese management practice adoption in Indonesia	5
The dynamics shaping experiences and prospects of employer coordination in a Liberal Market Economy: The case of Scotland	5
Employers’ views on flexible employment contracts for younger workers: Benefits, downsides and societal outlook	5
Opening the black box of works council–management team interaction: Germany and the Netherlands compared	5
Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem	5
Editorial	5
Covid-19 and health and safety at work: Trade union dilemmas in Germany, France and Luxembourg (March 2020–December 2021)	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
Why are (financialised) workers becoming more resigned and conformist and less claimant? Empirical evidence from Portugal	5
The dual discourse phenomenon and its deep logic in the rights protection of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta	5
Editorial	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
Smart manufacturing and tasks automation in the steel industry: Reflecting on routine work and skills in Industry 4.0	4
The multidimensional configuration of platform work: A mixed-methods analysis of the Argentinian case	4
Managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry, 1947–1994	4
Pressed to overwork to exhaustion? The role of psychological detachment and exhaustion in the context of teleworking	4
The union default: Increasing union membership by facilitating the experience of unionism and overcoming the role of inertia	4
Self-employment experience effects on well-being: A longitudinal study	4
Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: Finding Customs in Common?	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
Have low-paid jobs increased in the Swedish labor market? Defining low pay in the context of the Nordic model	3
Why do labour platforms negotiate? Platform strategies in tax-based welfare states	3
Employee voice at board level: Responses to the revised UK Corporate Governance Code and the prospects for workplace democracy	3
Editorial	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
Editorial	3
An old recipe, with a new spice: Union avoidance tactics adopted by organized crime when expanding in new territories	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
The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity	3
Institutions or resources and capabilities? Explaining engagement in European sectoral social dialogue	3
Transnational labour governance: Crafting the authority and regulatory effectiveness of global agreements	3
Turnover intentions, training and motivations among Australian union staff	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
Editorial	3
Do participation structures affect workers’ voice?	3
The union experience: Workplace instrumentality, prosocial unionism, and union satisfaction	3

Context matters: The meaning of organizational context in managers’ leadership behavior and subordinates’ perceptions of leadership	2
Organizational restructuring, precarious employment and work intensification: Women managers’ experience of work under neoliberalism	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
Strikes and lockouts: The need to separate labour conflicts	2
Decoupling gender equality from gender pay audits in Swedish municipalities	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
Unions divided? Trade union attitudes towards the European Union’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages	2
The active production of consent for employment precarity and the euphemisation of coercion in platform economies: The case of food delivery riders	2
A just transition: Insights from the labour unions of a steel locality (Taranto, Italy)	2
Digital Taylorism in China’s e-commerce industry: A case study of internet professionals	2
Was it worth it? The impact of the German minimum wage on union membership of employees	2
Nappies, books and wrinkles: How children, qualifications and age affect female underemployment in Australia	2
Trapped in contradiction: Precariousness and the ideological orientations of younger workers in hospitality-related occupations	2
Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands	2
The potential of a union default to influence the preferences and choices of non-union workers in unionised workplaces	2
Disaggregating the liberal market economies: Institutions and HRM	2
Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19	2
The effects of public goods framing for a union default policy	1
Factors influencing union effectiveness in the public service in Zambia: Associations and mediating effect	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
Perceived identity threat and organizational cynicism in the recursive relationship between psychological contract breach and counterproductive work behavior	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 damage could a small breeze do to a fence?’ The lack of collective action on ride-hailing platforms in Berlin and Tallinn	1
Gender difference in workplace violence associated with job characteristics among civil servants: A nationwide Taiwan survey	1
New technology and workers’ perceived impact on job quality: Does labor organization matter?	1
Gender dynamics in dual-earner couples: Spousal occupational status and working hours	1
Precarious employment in Swedish retail 1990–2019: An intersectional analysis of patterns and consequences	1
Self-surveillance practices of factory women migrant workers receiving SRH interventions in Malaysia: The effects of salience, gendered subjectivity and universalism	1
Deep freezing the labour market through job retention schemes during the pandemic: Exploring contemporary Scandinavian crisis corporatism	1
The moral economy of the rich	1
Why does Germany abstain from statutory bargaining extensions? Explaining the exceptional German erosion of collective wage bargaining	1
Towards what end? Collective bargaining and the making and unmaking of the working class	1
Workplace regimes in Western Europe, 1995–2015: Implications for intensification, intrusion, income and insecurity	1
Robert Owen, utopian socialism and labour law	1
Trade union influence on innovation in the British private sector: Direct and indirect paths	1
Unraveling opportunism in platform-mediated work within the Nordic working life model: An institutional complexity perspective	1
Editorial	1
The moderated mediation role of the extension in the relationship between union density and bargaining coverage	1
Job insecurity and health and well-being: What happens when you really need or love your job?	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
The idea of economic democracy in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s: Its proponents, predecessors, and critique	1
EP Thompson’s moral economy and legacy	1
Work values and hybrid careers in the gig economy: The evidence from an online labor market	1
Whistleblowing – an extension of working life democracy? The case of Norway	1
Regulatory influence on the overall quality of platform work: Lessons from the Chilean context	1