EAN: 9789052013602

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN SMALL COMPANIES - CHRIS...

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...

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