Industrial relations in European hypermarkets: Home and host country influences

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Geppert M., Williams K., Wortmann M., Czarzasty J., KAĞNICIOĞLU D., Koehler H., ...More

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, vol.20, no.3, pp.255-271, 2014 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 20 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Doi Number: 10.1177/0959680113519186
  • Journal Name: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.255-271
  • Keywords: Comparative industrial relations, Germany, France, hypermarkets, Ireland, multinational companies, Poland, Spain, Turkey, UK
  • Anadolu University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

In this article we examine the industrial relations practices of three large European food retailers when they transfer the hypermarket format to other countries. We ask, first, how industrial relations in hypermarkets differ from those in other food retailing outlets. Second, we examine how far the approach characteristic of each company's country-of-origin (Germany, France and the UK) shapes the practices adopted elsewhere. Third, we ask how they respond to the specific industrial relations systems of each host country (Turkey, Poland, Ireland and Spain).