Coordinated bargaining: a stocktaking of its preconditions, practices and performance

Debates on coordination and centralisation of bargaining tend to neglect conceptual questions. In particular, comparative analysis often treats coordination as a ‘black box’. This makes it difficult to understand the contradictory tendencies towards both decentralisation and coordination which have prevailed across Europe. This paper provides insight into the preconditions, practices and effects of coordination, based on a crossnational comparison that mainly draws from case‐study evidence from four countries which are of particular analytical relevance to the study of coordination.