OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economic and Industrial Democracy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognition of the importance of personal demands and resources in employee well-being: Lessons for management at The State Hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic – a critical evaluation of NHS employe	61
Editorial	51
Between entrepreneurs and workers: Cleavages and compromises in rationales and policy solutions regarding ‘dependent contractors’	19
The potential of a union default to influence the preferences and choices of non-union workers in unionised workplaces	16
Factors influencing union effectiveness in the public service in Zambia: Associations and mediating effect	13
Self-surveillance practices of factory women migrant workers receiving SRH interventions in Malaysia: The effects of salience, gendered subjectivity and universalism	12
The hidden layers of resistance to dominant HRM transfer: Evidence from Japanese management practice adoption in Indonesia	11
Employment and well-being after plant closure: Survey evidence from Switzerland on the mid and long run	11
Editorial	10
Qualitative job insecurity and voice behavior: Evaluation of the mediating effect of affective organizational commitment	10
Gender difference in workplace violence associated with job characteristics among civil servants: A nationwide Taiwan survey	10
Who are the union free-riders in Ireland? Evidence from the Working in Ireland Survey	9
Struggles for co-determination: Anti-unionism, obstruction of works councils and employees’ counterstrategies in Germany	9
Editorial	9
Corrigendum to The intersection of disability and in-work poverty in an advanced industrial nation: The lived experience of multiple disadvantage in a post-financial crisis UK	8
Workplace regimes in Western Europe, 1995–2015: Implications for intensification, intrusion, income and insecurity	8
‘Mining women’ and livelihoods: Examining the dominant and emerging issues in the ASM gendered economic space	8
Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem	8
Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies	8
Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands	7
Small sums, big impact: Corruption and microfinance institutions	7
A just transition: Insights from the labour unions of a steel locality (Taranto, Italy)	7
Editorial	7
The union participation construct: A mixed-methods assessment	7
Work values and hybrid careers in the gig economy: The evidence from an online labor market	7

The gendered effect of an overwork climate and high personal standards for work–home conflict during the pandemic	7
Employer strategies for undermining migrants’ power resources: Evidence from the Danish construction sector	6
In memoriam: Wuokko Knocke, 1936–2022	6
Editorial	5
The impact of human resource management practices on managerial work: Institutional constraints, strategic actions and organizational outcomes	5
Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?	5
Conditions for cross-professional union coalition-building: When enough is enough, but solidarity also has its limits!	5
Power resources, institutional legacy and labour standards transformation: Lessons from two developing countries	5
What if all kinds of work were considered ‘real jobs,’ and everyone who worked had a job? Using imaginary thinking in the context of Swedish municipal activation services	5
Digital Taylorism in China’s e-commerce industry: A case study of internet professionals	5
New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work	5
Power resource theory revisited: The perils and promises for understanding contemporary labour politics	5
Robots and unions: The moderating effect of organized labour on technological unemployment	5
The influence of the political attitudes of workers and the effect of the Great Recession on the decision to join a trade union in Southern Europe	4
Editorial	4
Editorial	4
Unions divided? Trade union attitudes towards the European Union’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages	4
The dynamics shaping experiences and prospects of employer coordination in a Liberal Market Economy: The case of Scotland	4
Between coping and resistance: Migrant networks and alternative forms of collectivism	4
Trapped in contradiction: Precariousness and the ideological orientations of younger workers in hospitality-related occupations	4
Trade union influence on innovation in the British private sector: Direct and indirect paths	4
Victory through defence: Employers’ policy preferences and success in the industrial democracy reform process in Finland, 1960s–1970s	4
Supervisor and customer incivility as moderators of the relationship between job insecurity and work engagement: Evidence from a new context	4
Corrigendum to Labour–management relations and employee involvement in lean production systems in different national contexts: A comparison of French and Swedish aerospace companies	4
The effects of public goods framing for a union default policy	3
Let’s take it outside: Seeking alternative targets for expressing dissent at work when voice is suppressed	3
Precarious employment in Swedish retail 1990–2019: An intersectional analysis of patterns and consequences	3
Unraveling opportunism in platform-mediated work within the Nordic working life model: An institutional complexity perspective	3
The Global Union Federations and their affiliates: Constrained agency in action	3
Whistleblowing – an extension of working life democracy? The case of Norway	3
Why are (financialised) workers becoming more resigned and conformist and less claimant? Empirical evidence from Portugal	3
Trade unions, stigma and legitimacy: A case study about academic wages in British universities	3
‘The circle of life’: The role of life course in understanding job quality	3
The moderated mediation role of the extension in the relationship between union density and bargaining coverage	3
Opting for cooperative self-management: The ethical and job quality motives of service-sector professionals and technicians in Barcelona	3
Employers’ views on flexible employment contracts for younger workers: Benefits, downsides and societal outlook	3
Empowerment as a pre-requisite to managing and influencing health in the workplace: The sexual and reproductive health needs of factory women migrant workers in Malaysia	3
New technology and workers’ perceived impact on job quality: Does labor organization matter?	3
Opening the black box of works council–management team interaction: Germany and the Netherlands compared	3
Regulatory influence on the overall quality of platform work: Lessons from the Chilean context	3
Local labour markets, workforce planning and underemployment	3
Prisoners of oath: Junior doctors’ professional identities during and after industrial action	3
Gender dynamics in dual-earner couples: Spousal occupational status and working hours	3
Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: Finding Customs in Common?	2
Organizational change and psychosomatic symptoms: Exploring pathways through working conditions and assessing the moderating role of social support among European workers	2
The struggle for industrial democracy in Sweden: A sociological macro-meso analysis 1960–2020	2
Editorial	2
Smart manufacturing and tasks automation in the steel industry: Reflecting on routine work and skills in Industry 4.0	2
Economic and political determinants of the South African labour share, 1971–2019	2
Class, union membership, and organizational commitment: A multilevel analysis of 28 countries	2

Covid-19 and health and safety at work: Trade union dilemmas in Germany, France and Luxembourg (March 2020–December 2021)	2
Works councils and the digitalisation of manufacturing: Opportunity or threat for their power position?	2
The multidimensional configuration of platform work: A mixed-methods analysis of the Argentinian case	2
Trade unions facing a French industrial policy: The emergence of a medical imaging filière	2
‘I feel like I’m in poverty. I don’t do much outside of work other than survive’: In-work poverty and multiple employment in the UK	2
Self-employment experience effects on well-being: A longitudinal study	2
Migrant workers navigating the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: Resilience, reworking and resistance	2
Strikes and lockouts: The need to separate labour conflicts	2
Wage determination in the shadow of the law: The case of works councilors in Germany	2
Decoupling gender equality from gender pay audits in Swedish municipalities	2
The active production of consent for employment precarity and the euphemisation of coercion in platform economies: The case of food delivery riders	2
Unions in society, unions in the state: New forms of irregular workers’ movements beyond the factory in South Korea	2
Editorial	2
Why don’t employers hire long-term unemployed entitled to a wage subsidy? The employer’s perspective on subsidised employment	2
Organizational restructuring, precarious employment and work intensification: Women managers’ experience of work under neoliberalism	2
Out with the old, in with the new? Institutional experimentation and decent work in the UK	1
Automation and the future of work: An intersectional study of the role of human capital, income, gender and visible minority status	1
Disaggregating the liberal market economies: Institutions and HRM	1
Somewhat more than path dependence: The Spanish employers’ peak organisation and social dialogue in light of the crisis of the industrial relations system	1
Qualitative job insecurity and extra-role behaviours: The moderating role of work motivation and perceived investment in employee development	1
The impact of job quality on organizational commitment and job satisfaction: The moderating role of socioeconomic status	1
Membership in employers’ associations and collective bargaining coverage in Germany	1
Perceived identity threat and organizational cynicism in the recursive relationship between psychological contract breach and counterproductive work behavior	1
The dual discourse phenomenon and its deep logic in the rights protection of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta	1
Riding together? Why app-mediated food delivery couriers join trade unions in Austria	1
Neoliberalisation of industrial relations: The ideational development of Dutch employers’ organisations between 1976 and 2019	1
Navigating self-managed conflict resolution: A case study	1
Workers’ resistance to managerial silencing: A comparative study of temporary agency and platform workers’ voice in a developing context	1
Responsible autonomy: The interplay of autonomy, control and trust for knowledge professionals working remotely during COVID-19	1
Using a moral economy perspective to understand working-class finance and the decline of home credit in the United Kingdom	1
Collectivism, individualism and solidarity in global value chain restructuring in the Global North: Workers’ resistance in the Swiss machinery industry	1
The union default: Increasing union membership by facilitating the experience of unionism and overcoming the role of inertia	1
Beyond democratic degeneration, horizontal and liberated organization? The agonistic approach of a Belgian food co-op	1
Editorial	1
The fragmenting occupation of labour inspection and the degradation of regulatory and enforcement work inside the British state	1
Do sunk costs nip worker-owned firms in the bud?	1
Was it worth it? The impact of the German minimum wage on union membership of employees	1
Employer associations: Climate change, power and politics	1