dc.contributor.author
Fichter, Michael
dc.contributor.author
Stevis, Dimitris
dc.contributor.author
Helfen, Markus
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T03:41:59Z
dc.date.available
2014-06-18T11:35:58.062Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/15749
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-19936
dc.description.abstract
Global Framework Agreements (GFAs) are still a marginal topic in political and
academic discourses over global governance and corporate responsibility. In
functional terms, GFAs are a commitment to include global labor standards with
respect to human resource management as part of this broader turn to CR. But
to what extent are these intentions and goals actually realized? Are
corporations able and willing to implement GFAs in a joint effort together
with the unions across a vastly diverse range of institutional settings and
national arrangements? And do GFAs have an influence on core elements of a
company’s business policy decisions? Drawing on the insights from an
interdisciplinary and multinational project, this paper uses four case studies
to explore the conditions and variations in GFA implementation in the USA.
Although we observe, as have others before us, that key matters of business
strategy such as investments, acquisitions, restructuring, or relocation are
more centralized than corporate policies on labor relations, we provide some
evidence that the implementation of GFAs can be moved forward by a confluence
of external actor involvement and of corporate strategies motivated by a
desire to streamline HRM practices (that include the goals covered by GFAs in
their core business practices). This finding of the influence of external
actor voice in implementation processes may also have broader explanatory
power with respect to CR initiatives in general. And in theoretical terms it
allows us to explore the interplay between macro structural explanations like
the Varieties of Capitalism approach, and the strategic “micro-political”
explanations. Our study, in fact, suggests a strong need to combine these in a
more systematic fashion.
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dc.rights.uri
http://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/576/repository-policy
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title
Bargaining for corporate responsibility
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
Business and Politics. - 14 (2012), 3, S. 1-31
dc.identifier.sepid
29923
dc.title.subtitle
The global and the local of framework agreements in the USA
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1515/bap-2012-0017
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bap.2012.14.issue-3/bap-2012-0017/bap-2012-0017.xml
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
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FUDOCS_document_000000020503
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no
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000003647
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.issn
1369-5258