TY - JOUR

T1 - Coordination versus organization

T2 - Diverging logics of firm cooperation in Denmark and Sweden

AU - Ibsen, Christian Lyhne

AU - Sezer, Lisa

AU - Doellgast, Virginia

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Employers and their business associations have become increasingly important actors promoting market competition ? even in once highly coordinated and regulated European economies. Based on a comparison of the Danish and Swedish telecommunications industries, we ask how differences in business association structures relate to the ways firms cooperate in competitive markets. In Denmark, fragmented, competing business associations encouraged a more unstable logic of coordination, with firms predominately focussed on pursuing particularistic interests in public policy lobbying and exit-oriented strategies in employment relations. In contrast, the unified business association in Sweden encouraged a logic of organization, with firms predominately seeking collective good provision in public policy lobbying and engaging in mutual gains bargaining. Findings contribute to debates on the role of business associations in fostering firm cooperation and collective regulation.

AB - Employers and their business associations have become increasingly important actors promoting market competition ? even in once highly coordinated and regulated European economies. Based on a comparison of the Danish and Swedish telecommunications industries, we ask how differences in business association structures relate to the ways firms cooperate in competitive markets. In Denmark, fragmented, competing business associations encouraged a more unstable logic of coordination, with firms predominately focussed on pursuing particularistic interests in public policy lobbying and exit-oriented strategies in employment relations. In contrast, the unified business association in Sweden encouraged a logic of organization, with firms predominately seeking collective good provision in public policy lobbying and engaging in mutual gains bargaining. Findings contribute to debates on the role of business associations in fostering firm cooperation and collective regulation.

U2 - 10.1111/bjir.12704

DO - 10.1111/bjir.12704

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

VL - 61

SP - 526

EP - 549

JO - British Journal of Industrial Relations

JF - British Journal of Industrial Relations

SN - 0007-1080

IS - 3

ER -