TY - RPRT

T1 - Business and Welfare – Companies' preferences and their collective action in the European Union (BAWEU)

T2 - – Country report Denmark. FAOS report 195.

AU - Mailand, Mikkel

PY - 2022/12

Y1 - 2022/12

N2 - The full title of the project is 'Business and Welfare – Companies' preferencesand their collective action in the European Union' (BAWEU) – agreementnumber VS/2020/0141 – financed by European Commission's DG employment.The project covers Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovakia.The project is coordinated by the Italian research team (University of Milan).The project has two specific research goals:1. To better understand how homogenous or differentiated business' preferencestoward welfare policies are changing in a post-industrial and global economy2. To better understand how the role of employers' associations is evolving inexpressing and representing employers' preferencesThe research goals of the project lead to four main research questions:• In the debate and in the welfare reforms, at what level of action arecompanies placed? How much does the business–unions–governmentsmodel still exist? How much are they willing to support a 'socialization ofrisk' and for what reasons?• How much do companies support the need for collective action? In relationto social policies, are multinationals becoming rule makers in terms ofindividual action or in some cases (which ones?) do they also prefer to actcollectively?• In relation to welfare policy preferences, are there differences betweenmanufacturing and the service sector and within these sectors?• What is the role played at the EU level as a forum for companies to fostertheir social policy preferences and to discuss with institutions and tradeunions? In this respect, how does the interaction among different nationalbusiness associations work at the EU level (e.g. Business Europe)?

AB - The full title of the project is 'Business and Welfare – Companies' preferencesand their collective action in the European Union' (BAWEU) – agreementnumber VS/2020/0141 – financed by European Commission's DG employment.The project covers Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovakia.The project is coordinated by the Italian research team (University of Milan).The project has two specific research goals:1. To better understand how homogenous or differentiated business' preferencestoward welfare policies are changing in a post-industrial and global economy2. To better understand how the role of employers' associations is evolving inexpressing and representing employers' preferencesThe research goals of the project lead to four main research questions:• In the debate and in the welfare reforms, at what level of action arecompanies placed? How much does the business–unions–governmentsmodel still exist? How much are they willing to support a 'socialization ofrisk' and for what reasons?• How much do companies support the need for collective action? In relationto social policies, are multinationals becoming rule makers in terms ofindividual action or in some cases (which ones?) do they also prefer to actcollectively?• In relation to welfare policy preferences, are there differences betweenmanufacturing and the service sector and within these sectors?• What is the role played at the EU level as a forum for companies to fostertheir social policy preferences and to discuss with institutions and tradeunions? In this respect, how does the interaction among different nationalbusiness associations work at the EU level (e.g. Business Europe)?

M3 - Report

BT - Business and Welfare – Companies' preferences and their collective action in the European Union (BAWEU)

PB - FAOS, Sociologisk Institut, Københavns Universitet

ER -