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Home country advantage? The influence of Italian, German and Austrian employee representatives in the UniCredit European Works Council
No full textThis article examines the first European Works Council (EWC) to be established in the Italian banking sector, at UniCredit. It focuses on the interaction between Italian, German and Austrian delegations of employee representatives and on the perspectives and practices that reflect their different cultural and institutional backgrounds in industrial relations. Much of the literature suggests that employee representatives from the home country of a multinational company are likely to mould EWC structures in accordance with their own national backgrounds and have greater confidence in dealing with central management in EWC meetings. Our findings partly substantiate this argument, but also suggest that minority delegations, when they have the benefit of strong national institutional arrangements and less fragmented union patterns, are more likely to be cohesive and experienced and therefore are able to challenge management and sometimes win significant arguments over strategy
Dall'informazione al coinvolgimento delle parti sociali: la dimensione collettiva nel prisma dell'Intelligenza Artificiale
No full textLegge e autonomia collettiva al tempo del Jobs Act: appunti tra retorica e realtà
No full textContributo sul rapporto tra ordinamento giuslavoristico e relazioni industriali alla luce del Jobs Ac
A Fair Wage for Workers On-Demand via App
No full textWork-on-demand via Application encompasses the outsourcing of very traditional jobs, such as driving or cleaning, to workers engaged by digital platforms as independent contractors. According to recent studies and empirical findings, these workers, often deprived of any basic employment and social protections, face a high economic uncertainty. Granting them the application of the minimum wage could be a way to alleviate it and provide a fairer distribution of the profits generated by the digital platforms. The Author investigates possible solutions to achieve this target. After having excluded that workers on-demand via app can be normally classified as ‘employees’ and excluded that their inclusion into, already existing or brand new, intermediate categories can lead to satisfactory outcomes, he moved to a de jure condendo perspective. He argues that the best solution should consider workers on-demand via application as part of the category of self-employed performing personal work. He proposes a new redistribution of employment protections towards all personal work relations, aimed at reworking the rigidity of the dichotomy employment (full rights) / self-employment (no rights), based on a purposive approach. The article concludes then by considering the issues that the proposal at stake will face in the light of competition law and free movement of services with the EU single market
Working in Digital and Smart Organizations: Legal, Economic and Organizational Perspectives on the Digitalization of Labour Relations
No full textContributing to recent debate on the emergence of digital and agile work, this book explores the implications for labour and employment relations within and beyond organizational boundaries. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the key issues and challenges of digitalization, this collection covers topics such as the gig economy, crowdworking and Industry 4.0. Theory and analysis are combined as the authors examine the impact of digital and smart work on organization, HRM and labour law. With comprehensive empirical evidence for those interested in understanding the more complex trajectories of today’s transforming work relationships, this book will not only appeal to students and academics but also to policy-makers, trade unionists and employers’ organizations
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Organization as Collective Rule-Making
No full textThe idea that the individualistic-contractualistic view of the work relationship has insufficient regulatory power is attracting renewed attention from jurists, especially in Italy. Consequently, a number of prominent labor law scholars are calling for a dedicated thematization of the “third,” or “collective-relational” dimension of the work relationship, as a distinct component from the individual and the collective-trade union dimension, concerning the coordination of interdependent workers and jobs in the organization. With a view to contributing to this debate, this chapter aims at shedding light on the organizational roots of that dimension. To this end, it focuses on and illustrates two options for interpreting coordination drawn from organizational theory—i.e., predetermination and processual regulation—which reflect two different ideas of the organization and of the workers’ participation in the regulation/coordination of interdependent/cooperative actions. The chapter argues that only by means of an epistemological turn to a processual perspective on organization and regulation/coordination, scholars can go beyond the long-standing and still unresolved opposition, in labor law debate, between contract and organization
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