In this paper, we introduce a game-theoretical formulation for a specific form of collaborative industrial relations called “Industrial Symbiotic Relation (ISR) games” and provide a formal framework to model, verify, and support collaboration decisions in this new class of two-person operational games. ISR games are formalized as cooperative cost-allocation games with the aim to allocate the to...

Asymmetric information problems on the labour and the financial market reduce private incentives to undertake activities necessary to attain the socially optimal rate of growth when the rate of innovation is endogenous. Institutional and contractual arrangements on both markets may help to correctly evaluate the long-term prospects of innovations, to protect the investment in specific assets an...

Introduction: the EU and national industrial relations A paradox has emerged in the last two decades in Europe. Interest in comparing employment relations has increased, under international pressure to increase productivity, employment rates and competitiveness and to attract foreign investors and foreign skilled workers. International organisations, governments, trade unions, multinational com...

1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Industrial Relations (IR) in the Global Context (a) IR-a definition (b) IR and HRM (c) Liberalization, globalization and IR (i) Overview (ii) The relevance of globalization to industrial relations-a summary (iii) The role of multinational corporations (MNC's) (iv) Information technology and IR (v) The impact of other trends (d) The changing nature of IR-a...

Industrial relations (IR) is often accused of being atheoretical. Yet there has been a tradition of tacit theorizing that links IR to an important strand of social science theory, institutional analysis. There are further connections to the philosophy of science laid out in critical realism (CR). This paper argues that these connections need to be made more explicit and that a programme of IR r...

The Motherhood Wage Penalty Revisited: Experience, Heterogeneity, Work Effort, and WorkSchedule Flexibility Author(s): Deborah J. Anderson, Melissa Binder, Kate Krause Source: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, (Jan., 2003), pp. 273-294 Published by: Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3590938 Accessed: 14/08...

This paper is based on the CEPII database’s the 6 – digit HS code exported trade data in 2003-2010, and using the survival analysis method to analyze the duration of the China exported industrial manufactured goods’ relations, the results of the study has found that the duration of our countries’ exported industrial manufactured products trade relations is relatively short, mostly trade relatio...