Bringing culture back in

Pluralism and societal corporatism as contexts of strategic adaptation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6257419
AutoresSvein S Andersen (0000-0002-7171-580X, BI Norwegian Business School, autor de correspondencia)
Año1988
Volumen16
Número5
Páginas513-526
Fecha de publicación1988-09-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Political Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0304-4130 • E-ISSN: 1475-6765
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-6765.1988.tb00166.x
OpenAlexW1558550614
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas5

The limited literature on offshore industrial relations in Britain and Norway has focused on the deviant nature of such arrangements compared to national traditions. The ‘newness’ of the sector and the special nature of the oil industry have been used to explain the deviance. This study, instead, controls for such factors and shows how contrasting patterns of adaptation can be related to system properties. Industrial relations in the two countries can be viewed as ideal‐type approximations of pluralism and societal corporatism. Within the tradition contrasting pluralism and neocorporatism, the dominant perspective has deliberately excluded cultural aspects, stressing instead structural form. The article argues for the reintroduction of culture and shows how British and Norwegian offshore developments reflect fundamentally different orientations towards industrial relations. Culture is not, however, conceptualized as ideosyncratic characteristics of the two countries. It stems instead from different histories of labour‐capital relations

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