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dc.contributor.authorRoss, Peter
dc.contributor.authorBamber, Greg
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:52:21Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:52:21Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2011-04-06T05:32:56Z
dc.identifier.issn00197939
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/30525
dc.description.abstractUsing interview data collected between 1992 and 2009, the authors explore how deregulation of the Australian telecommunications sector and re-regulation of the labor market affected employment relations (ER) strategies at Telstra, Australia's former telecommunications monopoly. Labor market re-regulation reversed much of the previous institutional support for union activity, and unions struggled to adjust to this changed institutional context. Telstra's ER strategies included large-scale downsizing and outsourcing. It moved dramatically toward unitarist (anti-union) ER approaches, with a shift away from collective bargaining toward individual employment contracts. This history raises a more general question of the extent to which employers make strategic ER choices autonomously and the extent to which such choices reflect the influence of the national institutional context. The authors conclude that while the changing institutional context-in this case, primarily government regulation-facilitated Telstra's strategic choices, management ideology was an important intervening variable in determining such choices.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCornell University
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttp://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/vol63/iss1/2/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom24
dc.relation.ispartofpageto41
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalIndustrial and Labor Relations Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume63
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchIndustrial Relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied Economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBusiness and Management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode150306
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1503
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1608
dc.titleStrategic choices in pluralist and unitarist employment relations regimes: A study of Australian telecommunications
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorRoss, Peter K.
gro.griffith.authorBamber, Greg J.


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