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A typology of employers’ organisations in the United Kingdom

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  • Leon Gooberman
  • Marco Hauptmeier
  • Edmund Heery

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This article examines employers’ organisations in the United Kingdom, drawing upon 70 interviews and a new dataset encompassing 447 employers’ organisations. The article’s contribution is to develop a new typology of employers’ organisations capturing their organisational change in the wake of the decline of collective bargaining. It does this by drawing on a conceptualisation of employers’ organisations as intermediary organisations before identifying four organisational types: lobbying, service, negotiating and standard-setting employers’ organisations. The article also identifies and discusses factors that underlie this pattern of differentiation.

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  • Leon Gooberman & Marco Hauptmeier & Edmund Heery, 2020. "A typology of employers’ organisations in the United Kingdom," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 41(1), pages 229-248, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:41:y:2020:i:1:p:229-248
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X17704499
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