Industrial Relations in Small Companies - Christian Dufour Sofia Murhem Wolfgang Rudolph Adelheid Hege Kartoniert (TB)

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 Swede n 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...