%0 Journal Article
%T The manufacturing sector: Still an anchor for pattern bargaining within and across countries?
%A Christian Ibsen
%A Jon Erik D£¿lvik
%A Thorsten Schulten
%A Torsten M¨¹ller
%J European Journal of Industrial Relations
%@ 1461-7129
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0959680118790817
%X This article investigates the development of collective wage bargaining systems in manufacturing in five countries: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. We illustrate the responses of collective actors to two key challenges: first, increased cross-country competition between Northern European companies operating within the same high-value/high-cost segment of the market; second, the competitive pressures resulting from increased east-north integration. Our analytical framework sets out different forms and outcomes of institutional change, with a focus on how the responses of collective actors to these two challenges shaped the development of wage bargaining systems
%K Collective bargaining
%K Denmark
%K employers¡¯ organizations
%K Finland
%K Germany
%K institutional change
%K international competition
%K manufacturing
%K Norway
%K Sweden
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959680118790817