Should I stay or should I go?: how moral arguments influence decisions about offshoring production/ created by Martin Schröder

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Schröder, Martin [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Economic and industrial democracy ; Volume 34, number 2Los Angeles: Sage, 2013Content type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

0143831X

Subject(s):

Industrial conflict -- Industrial negotiations -- Labour relations

LOC classification:

HD5650 EID

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Abstract: ow do trade unions and works councils influence what managements see as economically rational? Each of the two companies that this article studies planned to offshore its production to a low-cost country. Yet one of the two changed its plans after moral arguments were raised against this, whereas the other offshored in spite of similar arguments. Regardless of a similar economic situation, the two companies did the opposite of each other, yet each defended its action as economically optimal. This comparison of the two case studies therefore shows how moral arguments influence what actors define as economically rational.

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ow do trade unions and works councils influence what managements see as economically rational? Each of the two companies that this article studies planned to offshore its production to a low-cost country. Yet one of the two changed its plans after moral arguments were raised against this, whereas the other offshored in spite of similar arguments. Regardless of a similar economic situation, the two companies did the opposite of each other, yet each defended its action as economically optimal. This comparison of the two case studies therefore shows how moral arguments influence what actors define as economically rational.

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