Governance Structures And The Employment Relationship: Determinants Of Employer Demand For Collective Bargaining In Britain Book

	Figures	9
	Tables	11
	Abbreviations	15
	Acknowledgements	17
1	Introduction	19
1.1	Governance Structures for the Employment Relationship	19
1.2	The Evolution of Collective Bargaining in Britain	21
1.3	Research Questions and Plan of this Book	27
2	Governance Structures for the Employment Relationship	29
2.1	The Employment Relationship	29
2.2	Governance Structures	46
2.3	Optimal Governance Structures	67
2.4	Conclusions	79
3	Evolution of Governance Structures	81
3.1	Previous Theoretical Literature	82
3.2	The Evolutionary Framework to Governance Structures	106
3.3	Conclusions	129
4	Determinants of Employer Demand for Governance Structures	131
4.1	Company-Level Factors	132
4.2	Markets	164
4.3	Institutions	169
4.4	External Organisations	172
4.5	Conclusions	188
5	Governance Structures 1780-2000: Description and Analysis	191
5.1	The Emergence and Evolution of Governance Structures 1780-2000	191
5.2	The Role of External Organisations	218
5.3	Conclusions	227
6	Determinants of Employer Demand 1980-1998: Bivariate Analyses	229
6.1	Research Design	229
6.2	Company-Level Factors	236
6.3	Markets	279
6.4	Institutions	284
6.5	External Organisations	286
6.6	Conclusions	292
7	Determinants of Employer Demand 1980-1998: Multivariate Analyses	295
7.1	The Current State of Research	295
7.2	Research Design	300
7.3	The Empirical Results	318
7.4	Conclusions	348
8	Conclusions	353
8.1	Determinants of Governance Structures: The Findings	353
8.2	Whodunit? The Decline of Collective Bargaining in Britain	357
8.3	The Implications of Decollectivisation for Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations	360
8.4	Optimal Governance Structures for the Employment Relationship: A Role for Public Policy?	362
	Appendix	367
	Bibliography	383
	Index	409