Shaping Global Industrial Relations

1. Introduction and Overview
Konstantinos Papadakis

Part I. Cross-border Social Dialogue and Agreements: Processes and Outcomes

2. The Impact of Transnational Company Agreements on Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations
Isabelle Schömann

3. A Qualitative Analysis of International Framework Agreements: Implementation and Impact
Christian Welz

4. Adopting International Framework Agreements in the Russian Federation, South Africa and Japan: Management Motivations
Konstantinos Papadakis

Part II. Implementing International Framework Agreements on the Ground: Case Studies

5. Going Local with Global Policies: Implementing International Framework Agreements in Brazil and the United States
Michael Fichter, Markus Helfen

6. The Impacts of International Framework Agreements: Lessons from the Daimler Case
Dimitris Stevis

7. Transnational Restructuring Agreements: General Overview and Specific Evidence from the European Automobile Sector
Isabel Costa, Udo Rehfeldt

8. International Framework Agreements: Do Workers Benefit in a Global Banana Supply Chain?
Pamela K. Robinson

9. Global Social Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility in Outsourced Apparel Supply Chains: The Inditex Global Framework Agreement
Doug Miller

Part III. Complementary Initiatives

10. Organizing Networks and Alliances: International Unionism between the Local and the Global
Steve Davies, Glynne Williams, Nikolaus Hammer

11. Better Factories Cambodia: An Instrument for Improving Industrial Relations in a Transnational Context
Arianna Rossi, Raymond Robertson

Keywords: Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization, Economic Policy, Economic Growth, International Economics