TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christian Dufour
AU  - Adelheid Hege
AU  - Sofia Murhem
AU  - Wolfgang Rudolph
PY  - 2021
CY  - Bruxelles, Belgium
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1376-0955
TI  - Industrial Relations in Small Companies
T2  - A Comparison: France, Sweden and Germany
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102658
N2  - 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...
KW  - Frankreich, Klein- und Mittelbetrieb, Arbeitsbeziehungen, Schweden, Deutschland, Aufsatzsammlung, Industrial relation, Small company
LA  - English
ER  -