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Traditional approaches in the wide field of employment relations
focused on a small and clearly delineated set of actors, such as
trade unions and employers' organizations, operating within the
constraints given by formal, nationally confined institutions. It
is becoming increasingly clear that traditional approaches are
insufficiently able to account for employment relations processes
and outcomes in a world wherein formal institutions are being
rapidly transformed and partially dissolved, national boundaries
become porous, and the sheer number of actors involved is
increasing substantially. A shift in perspective is necessary, past
the nationally bounded actor-institution dichotomy, towards an
understanding of employment relations as fundamentally mediated by
complex and emergent networks that connect a multitude of actors
within and between countries. This volume provides a seminal
starting point for such a paradigm shift by applying theories and
methodologies from social network analysis to the study of
employment relations. It develops a theoretical toolkit of
mechanisms that operate within networks and shape employment
relations processes and outcomes, such as wages, labour market
policies and labour conflicts. It brings together insights from
various projects that investigate the structure, functioning and
impact of networks in employment relations through quantitative and
qualitative methods. It will be of particular interest to students
and scholars of employment relations across business and
management, economics, political science, and sociology
disciplines, as well as those interested in social networks.
Managers, trade unions, employers' organizations and state
authorities at national and international levels will find it
helpful in understanding how networks shape their world.
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