Introduction
Institutions matter. They help to shape the decisions that individual and collective actors, such as managers, workers, unions and politicians, make (Hall and Soskice, 2001; Hollingsworth and Boyer, 1997; Jessop, 1997; North, 1990; Steinmo and Thelen, 1992; Streeck, 2011a). As institutions vary between different countries and regions within countries, the typical patterns of interactions between managers, on the one hand, and workers and their representatives, on the other, will also differ. This encompasses not just the formal mechanisms by which employees and employee representatives engage with management in seeking to negotiate wages and ...
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