‘Americanization’ and the drivers of the establishment and use of works councils in three post‐socialist countries
研究了斯洛文尼亚、斯洛伐克和克罗地亚工人委员会的建立和使用是否受美国化影响，发现工会影响力是主要驱动因素，三国仍属欧洲协调市场经济模式。
Abstract We question notions of the ‘Americanization’ of employment relations in Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia. First, we examine the roles of unions, the use of US strategic approach to Human Resource Management (SHRM), and management perceptions of their organisations' innovativeness in the establishment of Works Council (WCs). Second, we employ the same variables in relation to the use of WCs for downward communication in these countries in comparison with what Amable (2003, https://doi.org/10.1093/019926113X.001.0001 ) terms the Continental European Coordinated Market Economy (CECME) of Austria, adding the CECMEs Germany and Norway as control variables. Union influence drives the adoption of WCs and their use for management downward communication. Hence, on our measures the three countries share features of the CECME category and have not been ‘Americanized’.