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Explaining Union Organising During Corporate Mergers

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  • Hyllman, Peter

    (Center for People and Organization)

  • Gunnarsson, Oskar

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With the emergence of transnational corporations and the resulting internationalisation of union co-determination, unions are found to organise themselves ineffectively in order to deal with this development. This paper attempts to offer a preliminary explanation as to why unions organise themselves in any given way during corporate mergers. A major literature review as well as an in depth case study constitute the basis for the explanation provided in this paper. Our literature study identify five major ideals of union organising, shaping the ways in which unions organise themselves in order to maintain legitimacy. Our in depth case study reveal how these ideals come into play in practice and how actors in a union organising process (re)produce these ideals in resolving issues regarding organisational identity and governance. We integrate our findings in presenting a conceptual model of union organising within transnational corporations, highlighting the diverse interrelationship between ideals as well as between ideals and actors.

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  • Hyllman, Peter & Gunnarsson, Oskar, 2005. "Explaining Union Organising During Corporate Mergers," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Business Administration 2005:12, Stockholm School of Economics.
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    1. Niklas Egels-Zandén & Peter Hyllman, 2011. "Differences in Organizing Between Unions and NGOs: Conflict and Cooperation Among Swedish Unions and NGOs," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 101(2), pages 249-261, June.

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      Union; transnational corporation; industrial relations; co-determination; corporate democracy;
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