Partnership under pressure: A process perspective on decentralized bargaining in Danish and Australian manufacturing
通过比较丹麦和澳大利亚制造业的分散化谈判案例，发现基于协议的分散化比法律规定的分散化更有利于维持公司层面的伙伴关系，建议未来分散化措施应通过谈判而非强制实施。
Decentralization of collective bargaining has become widespread in developed economies, and EU policies have pushed this trend further. We use process-tracing methodology to explore the consequences of decentralization for the reproduction of partnership bargaining relations at company level. We compare two cases of decentralized bargaining in manufacturing, one in Denmark and one in Australia. Agreement-based decentralization seems to offer better process conditions for reproduction of local partnership compared to decentralization regulated by law. This implies that future decentralization measures should be negotiated rather than imposed.