Shaping Global Industrial Relations

Introduction and Overview; K.Papadakis PART I: CROSS-BORDER SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND AGREEMENTS: PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES The Impact of Transnational Company Agreements on Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations; I.Schömann A Qualitative Analysis of International Framework Agreements: Implementation and Impact; C.Welz Adopting International Framework Agreements in the Russian Federation, South Africa and Japan: Management Motivations; K.Papadakis  PART II: IMPLEMENTING INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENTS ON THE GROUND: CASE STUDIES Going Local with Global Policies: Implementing International Framework Agreements in Brazil and the United States; M.Fichter  & M.Helfen The Impacts of International Framework Agreements: Lessons from the Daimler Case; D.Stevis Transnational Restructuring Agreements: General Overview and Specific Evidence from the European Automobile Sector; I.da Costa  & U.Rehfeldt International Framework Agreements: Do Workers Benefit in a Global Banana Supply Chain?; P.K.Robinson Global Social Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility in Outsourced Apparel Supply Chains: The Inditex Global Framework Agreement; D.Miller   PART III: COMPLEMENTARY INITIATIVES Organizing Networks and Alliances: International Unionism between the Local and the Global; S.Davies, G.Williams  & N.Hammer Better Factories Cambodia: An Instrument for Improving Industrial Relations in a Transnational Context; A.Rossi  & R.Robertson