Table of Contents

Part One: The Theoretical and Methodological Framework of Analysis
1: Theoretical Perspectives on Internationalization, Performance, and Institutions
2: Concepts and Hypotheses
3: Measurement, Data, and Statistical Analysis
Part Two: The Organization of Interests: Patterns and Dynamics
4: Concepts and Hypotheses
5: Representational Domains
6: Associational Centralization
7: Associational Power
Part Three: Wage Regulation and Bargaining
8: Concepts and Hypotheses
9: The Levels of BargainingNTOC
10: Macroeconomic Wage Coordination
11: The Role of the State
12: The Coverage of Collective Bargaining
Part Four: Labour Relations and Economic Performance
13: Concepts and Hypotheses
14: The Organization of Interests
15: Wage Regulation
16: Labour Relations and their Interaction with Economic Policy
17: Performance and Labour Relations: Hypotheses and Evidence Revisited
Part Five: Instead of Convergence: Neoliberalism and Lean Corporatism as Alternatives
18: Internationalization, Performance, and the Prevalence of Path Dependency
19: Collective Action and Bargaining in Internationalized Markets
20: Coordination, Institutions, and Performance
21: The Metamorphoses of Labour Relations

About the Author

Franz Traxler is Professor of Industrial Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna where he has been since 1992. From 1993 to 1997 he was also the President of the Austrian Sociological Association and Consultant of the OECD, Paris, and the ILO, Geneva. Previous academic positions have included Senior Lecturer of the Federal Academy of Public Administration (1985-92) and Assistant Professor, University of Economics, Vienna (1976-85). Sabine
Blaschke is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna. She has previously been a Research Assistant at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1992-5) and Junior Assistant
Professore at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna (1995-7). Bernhard Kittel is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna. He has previously been both a Research Assistant (1994-6) and a Junior Assistant Professor (1995-6) within this same institute.

Reviews

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Industrial Relations Journal
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