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Social partnership as an approach to CSR: ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ actors, their roles and relations

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  • Mikkel Mailand

    (Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS), Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen)

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This article reports on research into social partnerships aiming at labour market inclusion that developed during the 1990s in Denmark, the UK and Spain. Some of these partnerships are directly related to corporate social responsibility (CSR initiatives in individual firms), whereas others are only indirectly related (for instance, active labour market policy initiatives at local, regional and national level). Developments such as new target groups for such policies, the weakening of the social partners, ideological change, policy transfer and budget constraints of the state have led to more partnerships taking a multipartite form, meaning that not only the public authorities and the social partners, but also new actors such as business networks, commercial operators and NGOs, participate. The involvement of new actors poses a challenge for the traditional actors – among them the trade unions. Whether the relations between traditional and new actors are best described by conflict or by cooperation cannot be explained by regime theories. The decisive factor seems to be the extent to which the new actors challenge the privileged positions of the traditional actors.

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  • Mikkel Mailand, 2004. "Social partnership as an approach to CSR: ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ actors, their roles and relations," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 10(3), pages 416-432, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:10:y:2004:i:3:p:416-432
    DOI: 10.1177/102425890401000308
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