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Tracing the potential benefits and complex contingencies of multilevel collective bargaining (2024)
Journal Article
Grimshaw, D., Brandl, B., Bertranou, F., & Gontero, S. (2024). Tracing the potential benefits and complex contingencies of multilevel collective bargaining. International Labour Review, 163(4), 657-675. https://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12444

This article provides a critical review of the international evidence for economic benefits of multi-level collective bargaining. The expected gains are highly contingent and depend upon a raft of interlocking enabling conditions. This means that as... Read More about Tracing the potential benefits and complex contingencies of multilevel collective bargaining.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Important Datasets in the Field of Comparative Employment Relations (2024)
Book Chapter
Brandl, B. (2024). The Advantages and Disadvantages of Important Datasets in the Field of Comparative Employment Relations. In J. Parker, N. Donnelly, S. Ressia, & M. Gavin (Eds.), Field Guide to Researching Employment and Industrial Relations (161-174). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035313891

The availability of data with which to perform statistical analyses has always been the Achilles’ heel of empirical research in the field of comparative employment relations (ER). While data availability is challenging for almost all country comparat... Read More about The Advantages and Disadvantages of Important Datasets in the Field of Comparative Employment Relations.

All about power after all? A multilevel analysis of employers’ organization membership in Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Lehr, A., Jansen, G., & Brandl, B. (2024). All about power after all? A multilevel analysis of employers’ organization membership in Europe. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 62(2), 233-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12744

Employers’ organizations (EOs) are the voice of business interests in social partnership and socioeconomic policy making. Their legitimacy depends on the willingness of employers to join them as members. We examine the role of two types of power that... Read More about All about power after all? A multilevel analysis of employers’ organization membership in Europe.

From Factors to Actors: Networks and Network Theory in Comparative Industrial Relations (2022)
Book Chapter
Brandl, B. (2022). From Factors to Actors: Networks and Network Theory in Comparative Industrial Relations. In B. Brandl, B. Larsson, A. Lehr, & O. Molina (Eds.), Employment Relations as Networks: Methods and Theory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003125730

In this chapter it is explained that industrial relations can be described by networks of different actors. Therefore, social network theory and analyses is an ideal approach to understand industrial relations phenomena and outcomes. It is argued tha... Read More about From Factors to Actors: Networks and Network Theory in Comparative Industrial Relations.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Brandl, B., Larsson, B., Lehr, A., & Molina, O. (2022). Introduction. In B. Brandl, B. Larsson, A. Lehr, & O. Molina (Eds.), Employment Relations as Networks: Methods and Theory. Routledge