From industrial democracy to union democracy

Summers, Clyde W.

doi:10.1007/s12122-000-1001-8

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“…Many studies that document the internal regime within unions, their administrative functioning and their mode of governance have been designated under the generic label of ‘union democracy’ (Carey et al . ; Cook ; Harcourt and Wood ; Strauss ; Summers ). Following on from these studies, other research has looked at the management of unions (Clark et al .…”

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The Political Effects of Accounting Normalization on Trade Unions: An Analysis of Financial Transparency Reform in France

Bourguignon

Yon

2017

Brit J Industrial Rel

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The law of 20 August 2008 reformed the representativeness of French unions by imposing an obligation for 'financial transparency'. Building on exploratory research, we address the question of the organizational and political effects of the new regulation, which point to a traditional debate in union democracy studies: how do administrative and representative rationalities combine within trade union organizations? Drawing on interviews with union leaders and finance officers at various levels in three major labour confederations (CGT, CFDT and CGT-FO), we describe the different ways unionists have received the new accounting requirements and translated them into organizational practices and norms. Going beyond the traditional theses of compatibility and colonization, we make use of the body of work in critical legal and management studies to develop an endogenous approach of the relationships between trade unions and accounting management.Rémi Bourguignon is at IAE Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Sorbonne Business School) and Karel Yon is at

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Section: Can Financial Transparency Have Political Effects?mentioning

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The Political Effects of Accounting Normalization on Trade Unions: An Analysis of Financial Transparency Reform in France

Bourguignon

Yon

2017

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…Joint labour-management arrangements were advocated most notably by Morris Cooke, Frederick Taylor's ghost writer (i.e. the actual author of The Principles of Scientific Management), as the Taylor movement (particularly after Taylor's death) attempted to extend Taylor's 'mental revolution' by engaging union support (Cooke and Murray, 1940;Derber, 1970;Wrege and Stotka, 1978;Lichtenstein and Harris, 1993;McCartin, 1998;Summers, 2000;Bruce and Nyland, 2011;Nyland et al, 2014). Works councils were judged especially effective when considering technical aspects of production and were a key development in the emergence of codetermination in Europe.…”

Section: Employee Participation and Representationmentioning

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Industrial democracy and corporate governance: two discourses of reform in liberal-market economies

Mees¹

2017

IJCG

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Industrial democracy and corporate governance are intertwined discourses. In present-day use, however, the two expressions seem to represent as different perspectives as two related discursive traditions could become. At a time when calls have emerged for the intersection of the two narratives to be revisited, how the separation of these two related discourses occurred historically and what that separation has entailed seems of particular importance. The received corporate governance approach has become so dominant that it appears to have assumed the status of an ideology -an established way of thinking about the governance of corporations that is largely just assumed (rather than argued) in much financial and legal discourse. Seeking to understand why mainstream corporate governance scholarship has failed to engage with the historically key issue of industrial democratisation is the main purpose of this paper.

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Section: Employee Participation and Representationmentioning

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Industrial democracy and corporate governance: two discourses of reform in liberal-market economies

Mees

2017

IJCG

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Industrial democracy and corporate governance are intertwined discourses. In present-day use, however, the two expressions seem to represent as different perspectives as two related discursive traditions could become. At a time when calls have emerged for the intersection of the two narratives to be revisited, how the separation of these two related discourses occurred historically and what that separation has entailed seems of particular importance. The received corporate governance approach has become so dominant that it appears to have assumed the status of an ideology-an established way of thinking about the governance of corporations that is largely just assumed (rather than argued) in much financial and legal discourse. Seeking to understand why mainstream corporate governance scholarship has failed to engage with the historically key issue of industrial democratisation is the main purpose of this paper.

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From industrial democracy to union democracy

Cited by 14 publications

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The Political Effects of Accounting Normalization on Trade Unions: An Analysis of Financial Transparency Reform in France

The Political Effects of Accounting Normalization on Trade Unions: An Analysis of Financial Transparency Reform in France

Industrial democracy and corporate governance: two discourses of reform in liberal-market economies

Industrial democracy and corporate governance: two discourses of reform in liberal-market economies

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