Union Policies and Industrial Management

Industrial Clusters and Environmental Policies: New Tools for Territorial Management

The paper deals with relationship between industrial policies and territorial environmental policies in industrial clusters, and proposes an innovative approach to the decision making. Because of the globalisation processes, the European SMEs operating in industrial clusters are showing difficulties in maintaining their market competitiveness and nourishing their capability to achieve economic ...

What Do Unions Do to the Workplace? Union Impact on Management and HRM Policies

Policies and tools for sustainable water management in the European Union

The involvement of state organisms and local communities in the processes of development is nowadays a priority supported by the perspective that decisions should be taken as close as possible to the affected citizens (the subsidiary principle), as well as by the principles of local participation and decentralisation.

Targeted Industrial Policies: Theory and Evidence

At some point in the next decade, the U.S. will probably adopt an explicit industrial policy. This policy may include general incentives for capital formation, R&D, retraining of labor, and so on, but it will also almost surely involve "targeting" of industries thought to be of particular importance. By targeting I mean an effort to change the allocation of investment-as opposed to its overall ...

Union Complaints in Industrial Relations Negotia - tions

This paper details the design features of a potentially highly confrontational sequence of activities which is found in formal, industrial relations negotiations: a union complaint followed by a management defence. It is observed that the complaint is accomplished implicitly and that that implicitness is a joint accomplishment of all the participants; they collaborate to ensure that the talk co...