Features shaping second-level bargaining: The case of the Brescian industrial system

Titolo Rivista STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI
Autori/Curatori Niccolò Casnici, Sergio Albertini, Marco Castellani
Anno di pubblicazione 2020 Fascicolo 2020/2
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 27 P. 9-35 Dimensione file 292 KB
DOI 10.3280/SO2020-002001
Il DOI è il codice a barre della proprietà intellettuale: per saperne di più clicca qui

Qui sotto puoi vedere in anteprima la prima pagina di questo articolo.

Se questo articolo ti interessa, lo puoi acquistare (e scaricare in formato pdf) seguendo le facili indicazioni per acquistare il download credit. Acquista Download Credits per scaricare questo Articolo in formato PDF

Anteprima articolo

FrancoAngeli è membro della Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA)associazione indipendente e non profit per facilitare (attraverso i servizi tecnologici implementati da CrossRef.org) l’accesso degli studiosi ai contenuti digitali nelle pubblicazioni professionali e scientifiche

In this paper, we focus on limited and joint-stock active companies operating between 2008 and 2016 within the Brescian manufacturing system (n=7,619). After processing data for 1,047 firm-level agreements, we examined the impact of economic and organisational features on companies’ decentralised bargaining activity. In a first probit model, the purely economic-financial variables included do not explain company bargaining behaviour. However, a second probit model with only organisational variables shows that the largest and longest lasting companies were more likely to sign new agreements. In addition, while firm bargaining history tended to increase the likelihood of an agreement being signed, family-type governance had the opposite effect. Potential explanations of these findings are discussed, mainly in consideration of the widespread diffusion of a decentralised bargaining model based on family-type ownership and medium-small corporate dimensional scale.

In questo contributo ci focalizziamo sulle società per azioni attive nel sistema produttivo bresciano tra il 2008 e il 2016 (n=7,619). Dopo aver elaborato i dati riguardanti 1,047 contratti aziendali, abbiamo esaminato l'impatto di fattori economici ed organizzativi sull'attività di contrattazione decentrata. In un primo modello probit, le variabili economico-finanziarie incluse si sono rivelate inefficaci per spiegare le dinamiche contrattuali delle aziende. Tuttavia, un secondo modello probit con sole variabili organizzative mostra che le società più grandi e più longeve sono più propense a firmare nuovi contratti. Inoltre, se una consolidata esperienza nella contrattazione decentrata tende ad aumentare la probabilità di sviluppare contratti, la presenza di un assetto di governance familiare ha l’effetto opposto. A conclusione del lavoro discuteremo le potenziali implicazioni di questi risultati, tenendo conto dell’ampia diffusione in Italia di un modello di contrattazione decentrata ancorato alla gestione familiare e alle logiche della piccola-media impresa.

Keywords:Studi organizzativi; contrattazione di secondo livello; accordi aziendali

  1. Lindbeck, A., Snower, D.J. (2001), “Centralized Bargaining and Reorganized Work: Are They Compatible?”, European Economic Review, 45, 1851–75.
  2. Lissoni, F. (2001), “Knowledge codification and the geography of innovation: the case of Brescia mechanical cluster”, Research Policy, 30(9), 1479–1500.
  3. Locke, R. M. (1992), “The Demise of the National Union in Italy: Lessons for Comparative Industrial Relations Theory”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 45, 229–249.
  4. Lucifora, C., Origo, F. (2015), “Performance-Related Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Reform in the Structure of Collective Bargaining”, ILR Review, 68(3), 606–632.
  5. Marginson P. (2014), WCoordinated bargaining in Europe: From incremental corrosion to frontal assault?”, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 21(2), 97–114.
  6. Moene K.O. (1988), “Union's Threats and Wage Determination”, The Economic Journal, 98, 391, 471-483.
  7. Mueller, M.H., Philippon, T. (2007), “Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations”, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 186/2007
  8. Negrelli, S., Sheldon, P. (2004), “Employment Relations in Italy”, In G. Bamber, R. D. Lansbury, & N. Wailes (A cura di), International and Comparative Employment Relations. Globalisation and the Developed Market Economies (Vol. I, p. 146-175). Crown Nest: Allen & Unwin.
  9. Ortigueira, S. (2013), “The rise and fall of centralized wage bargaining”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115: 825–55.
  10. O'Connor, K. M., Arnold, J. A., Burris, E. R. (2005), “Negotiators' Bargaining Histories and Their Effects on Future Negotiation Performance”, Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(2), 350–362.
  11. Pedersini, R., Leonardi, S. (2018), “Breaking through the crisis with decentralisation? Collective bargaining in the EU after the great recession”, in Leonardi S. and Pedersini R. “Multi-employer bargaining under pressure. Decentralisation trends in five European countries”, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
  12. Ponzellini, A. M. (2017). -- Tratto da Nuovi Lavori: http://www.nuovi-lavori.it
  13. Pulignano, V., Carrieri, D., Baccaro, L. (2018), “Industrial relations in Italy in the twenty-first century”, Employee Relations, 40, 4, 654-673.
  14. Regalia, I., Regini, M. (1998). The Dual Character of Industrial Relations, In A. Ferner, R. Hyman, A. Ferner, R. Hyman (Eds.), Changing Industrial Relations in Europe (pp. 459–503). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  15. Leoni, R. (2018), “Efficienza ed efficacia della contrattazione integrativa aziendale. Una rassegna della letteratura empirica italiana”, Economia & Lavoro (1), 131-170.
  16. Argyres, N., Liebeskind, J. (1999), “Contractual Commitments, Bargaining Power, and Governance Inseparability: Incorporating History into Transaction Cost Theory”, The Academy of Management Review, 24(1), 49-63.
  17. Avolio B.J., Waldman D.A., McDaniel M.A. (1990), “Age and Work Performance in Nonmanagerial Jobs: The Effects of Experience and Occupational Type”, The Academy of Management Journal, 33 (2), 407-422.
  18. Battisti, M., Vallanti, G. (2013), “Flexible Wage Contracts, Temporary Jobs, and firm Performance: Evidence from Italian Firms”, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 52, 737–764.
  19. Baumann, F., Brändle, T. (2017), “WeWant Them All Covered! Collective Bargaining and Firm Heterogeneity: Theory and Evidence from Germany”, BJIR, 55(3), 463-499.
  20. Boeri, T. (2014), “Two-Tier Bargaining”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 8358.
  21. Bordogna, L., Pedersini, R. (2019), Relazioni industriali. L'esperienza italiana nel contesto internazionale, Il Mulino, Bologna.
  22. Roche, W. K., Teague, P., Coughlan, A. (2015), “Employers, trade unions and concession bargaining in the Irish recession”, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 36(4) 653–676.
  23. Schnabel, C., Zagelmeyer, S., Kohaut, S. (2006), “Collective Bargaining Structure and its Determinants: An Empirical Analysis with British and German Establishment Data”, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 12(2), 165-188.
  24. Schulze, W. S., Lubatkin, M.H., Dino, R.N. (2002), “Altruism, Agency, and the Competitiveness of Family Firms”, Managerial and Decisions Economics, 23, 247-259.
  25. Signoretti, A. (2016), “Analysis of Italian medium-sized enterprises’ collective bargaining from an international perspective: Evidence from the manufacturing sector”, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 37(4) 716–738.
  26. Telljohann, V. (2016), “Defensive Agreements and Opening Clauses: Integrated Strategies of Worker Involvement and Collective Bargaining against Fragmentation and Downgrading”, in Ales, E., Basenghi, F., Bromwich, W., Senatori, I. (a cura di), Employment Relations and Transformation of the Enterprise in the Global Economy, Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference in Commemoration of Marco Biagi, Giappichelli, Torino, pp. 187-200.
  27. Terry, M. (1993), “Workplace Unions and Workplace Industrial Relations: the Italian Experience”, Industrial Relations Journal, 24, 138–150.
  28. Traxler, F. (1995), “Farewell to labour market associations? Organised versus disorganised decentralisation as a map for industrial relations”, in Crouch C., Traxler F. (eds) Organized industrial relations in Europe: what future?, Aldershot, Avebury, 3–19.
  29. Tremolada, M. (2012),” Contrattazione di prossimità: gli organismi legittimati a concludere le specifiche intese”, Il lavoro nella giurisprudenza, 20(1), 21-28.
  30. Villalonga, B., R. Amit (2006), “How Do Family Ownership, Management and Control Affect Firm Value?”, Journal of Financial Economics, 80(2), 385–417.
  31. Card, D., Heining, J., Kline, P. (2013), “Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West German wage inequality”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(3), 967–1015.
  32. Carrieri, M., Ambra, M.C., Ciarini A. (2018), “The ‘resistible’ rise of decentralised bargaining: a cross-country and inter-sectoral comparison”, in Leonardi S. and Pedersini R. “Multi-employer bargaining under pressure. Decentralisation trends in five European countries”, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
  33. Cella, G. (1990), The Institutions in the Italian System of Industrial Relations, Labour, 4, 9–16.
  34. Cella, G., Treu, T. (2009), Relazioni industriali e contrattazione collettiva, Bologna: Il Mulino.
  35. Chrisman, J.J., Chua, J.H., De Massis, A., Frattini, F., Wright, M. (2014), “The Ability and Willingness Paradox in Family Firm Innovation”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 32(3), 310-318.
  36. Clark, A., Oswald, A., Warr, P. (1996), “Is Job Satisfaction U-shaped in age?”, Journal of Occupation and Organizational Psychology, 69, 57-81.
  37. Damiani, M., Ricci, A. (2014), “Decentralized bargaining and performance-related pay. Evidence from a panel of Italian Firms”, International Journal of Manpower, 35(7), 1038-1058.
  38. Damiani, M., Pompei, F., Ricci, A. (2016), “Performance-Related Pay, Productivity and Wages in Italy: A Quantile Regression Approach”, International Journal of Manpower, 37(3), 344-371.
  39. Damiani, M, Pompei F., Ricci, A. (2018), “Family Firms and Labor Productivity: The Role of Enterprise‐Level Bargaining in the Italian Economy”, Journal of Small Business Management, 56(4), 573-600.
  40. Daniele, V. (2018), “Geography, market potential and industrialization in Italy 1871-2001”, Papers in Regional Science, 97(3), 639-662.
  41. Denny, K., Nickell, S. (1992), “Unions and Investment in British Industry”, The Economic Journal, 102(413), 874-887.
  42. Devicienti, F., Naticchioni, P., Ricci, A. (2018), “Temporary Employment, Demand Volatility, and Unions: Firm-Level Evidence”, ILR Review, 71(1), 174–207.
  43. D’Amuri F., Giorgiantonio, C. (2015), “The Institutional and Economic Limits to Bargaining Decentralization in Italy”, IZA Policy Paper No. 98 , Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn.
  44. Eurofound (2015), “Pay in Europe in different wage-bargaining regimes”, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
  45. Eurofound (2015a), “Collective bargaining in Europe in the 21st century”, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
  46. Fana, M., Cirillo, D., Guarascio, V. (2015). “Labour market reforms in Italy: evaluating the efects of the Jobs Act”, LEM Working Paper Series 2015/31 Institute of Econonmics Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 02.
  47. Fana, M., Cirillo, D., Guarascio, V. (2016). “Did Italy Need More Labour Flexibility? The Consequences of the Jobs Act”, Intereconomics, 51(2), 79-86.
  48. Ferrara, M.D. Nunin, R. (2016), “European Economic Governance And Its Impact On The Collective Bargaining System: The Italian Case”, Trabajo, 34, 25-34.
  49. Frijsters, P., Beatton, T. (2012), “The mystery of the U-shaped relationship between happiness and age”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 82 (2-3), 525-542.
  50. Garcia, R., Calantone, R. (2003), “A critical look at technological innovation typology and innovativeness terminology: A literature review”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 19 (2), 110–132.
  51. Gielen, A.C., Kerkhofs, M.J.M, van Ours, J.C. (2010), “How performance related pay affects productivity and employment”, J Popul Econ, 23, 291–301.
  52. Grimes, A. (2014), Infrastructure and Regional Economic growth, (M. Fischer, & P. Nijkamp, Eds.) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
  53. Hernes, T. (2007), Understanding Organization as Process. Theory for a tangled world. New York: Routledge.
  54. Hirsch, B., Merkl, C., Müller, S., Schnabel, C. (2014), “Centralized vs. decentralized wage formation: The role of firms' production technology”, Kiel Working Papers 1927, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW).
  55. Holden S. (1988), “Wage Drift and the Relevance of Centralised Wage Setting”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 100, 711-731.
  56. Ichino, P. (2005), A che cosa serve il sindacato? Le follie di un sistema bloccato e la scommessa contro il decline, Milano: Mondadori.
  57. Kohaut, S., Schnabel, C. (2003) “Zur Erosion des Flächentarifvertrags: Ausmaß, Einflussfaktoren und Gegenmaßnahmen”, Industrielle Beziehungen, 10, 188–219.
  58. Leonardi, S., Ambra, M.C., Ciarini A. (2018), “Italian collective bargaining at a turning point”, in Leonardi S. and Pedersini R. “Multi-employer bargaining under pressure. Decentralisation trends in five European countries”, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

Niccolò Casnici, Sergio Albertini, Marco Castellani, Features shaping second-level bargaining: The case of the Brescian industrial system in "STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI " 2/2020, pp 9-35, DOI: 10.3280/SO2020-002001