...Inusah Salifu Purpose This study explores union leaders' challenges in promoting industrial harmony in Ghanaian public universities and how they manage to maintain industrial harmony within Ghana's tripartite higher education (HE) labour relations system. Design/methodology/approach Guided...

... are widely under-researched. This paper enriches empirical knowledge about labour relations and introduces the notion of a “trimorphic system of interest representation”. Andrea Müller can be contacted at: and.mueller@uni-tuebingen.de Staff councils are legally independent from trade unions...

... reinforce the distinction between parent firms and their subsidiaries. Hardy and Kozek in their paper assess labor relations and workplace institutions in an environment with a rich history of trade union movement of Solidarnosc. Their institutionalist approach focuses on structural, institutional...

...Zsolt Bedo; Mehmet Dermirbag; Geoffrey Wood; Jane Hardy; Wleslawa Kozek Purpose The article aims to consider the relationship between foreign investors and trade unions in forging new labour relations and workplace institutions in Polish firms. The research focuses on the role of foreign...