A typology of employers' organisations in the United Kingdom. (February 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gooberman, Leon; Hauptmeier, Marco; Heery, Edmund
• Is Part Of: Economic and industrial democracy. Volume 41:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 229
• Page End: 248
• Publication Date: 2020-02
• Subjects: Collective bargaining -- employer association -- employer forum -- employer interest representation -- employers' organisation -- standard-setting -- typology -- United Kingdom; Management -- Employee participation -- Periodicals; 331.0112
• DOI: 10.1177/0143831X17704499
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0143-831X

Abstract

This article examines employers' organisations in the United Kingdom, drawing upon 70 interviews and a new dataset encompassing 447 employers' organisations. The article's contribution is to develop a new typology of employers' organisations capturing their organisational change in the wake of the decline of collective bargaining. It does this by drawing on a conceptualisation of employers' organisations as intermediary organisations before identifying four organisational types: lobbying, service, negotiating and standard-setting employers' organisations. The article also identifies and discusses factors that underlie this pattern of differentiation.