RT Article
T1 Global framework agreements and trade unions as monitoring agents in transnational corporations
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 165
IS 3
SP 517
OP 533
A1 Bourguignon, Rémi
A1 Garaudel, Pierre
A1 Porcher, Simon
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1735357855
AB In combining the micropolitics approach in international management, the industrial relations literature and business ethics, this article conceptualizes global framework agreements as an alliance between central CSR managers of transnational corporations and central actors within trade unions to monitor subsidiaries in the implementation of CSR policies. The empirical investigation, based on the qualitative analysis of ten French multinational companies, confirms the relevance of such a conceptualization. It particularly shows that central CSR managers hope mobilizing the union network to increase their capacity to supervise subsidiaries. Over there, it helps understanding concrete mechanisms adopted to implement global framework agreements since, in some of the studied cases, the managerial and union channels are coordinated precisely to strengthen this capacity. It, then, highlights the procedural nature of policies regarding global framework agreements. Overall, this paper examines the conditions necessary for mobilization of the union network and suggests avenues for future research.
K1 Global framework agreement
K1 Global union federation
K1 Monitoring
K1 Trade union network
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-019-04115-w