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Industrial Relations in Small Companies
Christian Dufour
其他書名
A Comparison: France, Sweden and Germany
出版
Peter Lang
, 2007
主題
Business & Economics / Labor / General
Business & Economics / Small Business
Business & Economics / Economics / General
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
Social Science / Methodology
Social Science / Research
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
9052013608
9789052013602
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=E2GKd-W5vdUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Reference is often made to small companies, but little is known about them, especially regarding industrial relations. How can small companies be defined? Is their small size a sufficient feature for them to be considered the same? If they are different from each other, what makes them so? Is the distinction between them and other companies - big ones - relevant? In what way is life organised in such units, where employer and employees are in very close contact with each other? In order to answer these questions, the authors of this innovative book carried out surveys together in France, Sweden and Germany. They met employers, employees, union members and industrial relations specialists. Comparisons of these three national cases show that small companies do have common features that transcend frontiers. They do, however, also have national characteristics. They, therefore, warrant being analysed and understood in something other than merely negative terms. It thus appears that small companies are not so far off resembling big ones...