Andreas Pekarek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1224271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Pekarek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Pekarek |
| SIGNATURE | PEKAREK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7385-1787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feeling the heat? Union identity under labour market reforms
Union identity is widely seen as important to how trade unions function, yet it remains unclear how strongly it is embraced by members. We address this gap with a focus on German unions. In his seminal work on the ‘eternal triangle’ of union identity, Hyman situates German unions between the ‘market’ and ‘society’ dimensions. We examine whether members embraced their union's identity at a time when German unions faced intense political and econom…
Bridging disclosure and action: The role of intermediaries in gender pay gap regulation
The gender pay gap (GPG) has come to symbolise persistent inequalities women face at work. In response, governments are increasingly adopting regulation that requires employers to disclose gendered differences in pay, although often without compelling employers to address these pay gaps. An important question therefore arises over the role and capacity of non-state actors operating as regulatory intermediaries to hold employers accountable for cl…
Beyond the Audience: Rethinking Stakeholder Engagement in the Arts and Cultural Sector
This article explores how stakeholder engagement is enacted and understood by practitioners in Australian arts organizations. Data from 12 interviews are analyzed using a stakeholder engagement framework grounded in business ethics and management research. The findings underscore the definitional ambiguity surrounding engagement, which impedes consistent interpretation and application. Although community and audience priorities are emphasized, th…
The triangular relationship in platform gig work: Consumers, platform beneficence and worker vulnerability
Platform gig work is created and contested in dynamic, triangular relationships between platforms, workers, and consumers. Compared with the first two groups, however, evidence about the role of the third—consumers—is sparse. In this paper, we investigate consumers' changing perceptions of work in the platform gig economy and argue that their perspective warrants greater attention in sociological analyses. Using data from two Australian public op…
Delivering the goods? German industrial relations institutions during the Covid ‐19 crisis
The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused labor market disruptions at an unprecedented scale and is akin to a stress test for industrial relations institutions. Drawing on a large‐scale ( n = 6111) study of German employees, we empirically investigate whether and how the two institutions comprising Germany's dual system of employee representation—works councils and collective bargaining—have delivered on their protective potential and mitigated the impact…
Bridging industrial relations and critical management studies: Work, resistance, and alternate imaginings in late capitalism
The study of work is central to understanding how changes in organizations and their environments impact lives and livelihoods. While industrial sociology and its concern with the organization of work are foundational to management and organization studies, scholars have bemoaned the waning interest in work and its evolution within these fields. In this article we seek to re-energize this tradition, arguing that Critical Management Studies (CMS) …
Labor–Management Relations
Labor–management relations (LMR) – also referred to as labor, employment, or industrial relations – concerns how relationships between employers and workers are regulated, organized, and experienced. As a field, LMR focuses on the specific institutions, social actors, and processes that shape the dynamics and outcomes of these employment relationships. Because LMR has profound implications for individual well‐being, organizational functioning, an…
Sceptics or supporters? Consumers’ views of work in the gig economy
Labour‐management practices and workers’ experiences in the gig economy are topics of major interest for researchers, regulators and the general public. Platform companies project a vision of gig workers as autonomous freelancers, but pervasive features of their own labour practices, along with workers’ traits, create new vulnerabilities and risks. Efforts to improve gig workers’ conditions to date have made in‐roads without achieving a general s…
Systems for Conflict Resolution in Comparative Perspective
A cornerstone of industrial relations theory is the idea that the potential for conflict is inherent in the employment relationship. Across countries, forms of workplace conflict and methods of conflict resolution take a range of different forms. Yet aside from attempts to understand cross-national variation in strikes, little research has examined systemic differences in the manifestation and management of workplace conflict. The authors seek to…
Should we take the gig economy seriously?
The ‘gig economy’ has emerged rapidly as a form of service delivery that challenges existing business models, labour-management practices, and regulations. The ways in which platform companies transact with workers, in particular, has created a burgeoning public interest, but has yet to give rise to a corresponding academic literature. In this paper, we ask whether the gig economy deserves to be a subject of employment relations scholarship, give…
Umkämpfte Einheit: Neue und alte Muster der Lagerbildung in der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung
Between Strategy and Unpredictability: Negotiated Decision Making in German Union Mergers
Restructuring through mergers has been a key strategy of union revitalization. In Germany, union merger activity has been extensive but seemingly unpredictable in its outcomes, with failed mergers outnumbering successful attempts by a ratio of 2:1. The authors use case studies of two attempted union mergers in Germany-one failed and one successful-to exemplify how these complex processes unfold. Drawing on Walton and McKersie's (1991) work on neg…
Sceptics or supporters? Consumers’ views of work in the gig economy
Labour‐management practices and workers’ experiences in the gig economy are topics of major interest for researchers, regulators and the general public. Platform companies project a vision of gig workers as autonomous freelancers, but pervasive features of their own labour practices, along with workers’ traits, create new vulnerabilities and risks. Efforts to improve gig workers’ conditions to date have made in‐roads without achieving a general s…
The triangular relationship in platform gig work: Consumers, platform beneficence and worker vulnerability
Platform gig work is created and contested in dynamic, triangular relationships between platforms, workers, and consumers. Compared with the first two groups, however, evidence about the role of the third—consumers—is sparse. In this paper, we investigate consumers' changing perceptions of work in the platform gig economy and argue that their perspective warrants greater attention in sociological analyses. Using data from two Australian public op…
Systems for Conflict Resolution in Comparative Perspective
A cornerstone of industrial relations theory is the idea that the potential for conflict is inherent in the employment relationship. Across countries, forms of workplace conflict and methods of conflict resolution take a range of different forms. Yet aside from attempts to understand cross-national variation in strikes, little research has examined systemic differences in the manifestation and management of workplace conflict. The authors seek to…
Between Strategy and Unpredictability: Negotiated Decision Making in German Union Mergers
Restructuring through mergers has been a key strategy of union revitalization. In Germany, union merger activity has been extensive but seemingly unpredictable in its outcomes, with failed mergers outnumbering successful attempts by a ratio of 2:1. The authors use case studies of two attempted union mergers in Germany-one failed and one successful-to exemplify how these complex processes unfold. Drawing on Walton and McKersie's (1991) work on neg…
Umkämpfte Einheit: Neue und alte Muster der Lagerbildung in der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung
Between Strategy and Unpredictability: Negotiated Decision Making in German Union Mergers
Restructuring through mergers has been a key strategy of union revitalization. In Germany, union merger activity has been extensive but seemingly unpredictable in its outcomes, with failed mergers outnumbering successful attempts by a ratio of 2:1. The authors use case studies of two attempted union mergers in Germany-one failed and one successful-to exemplify how these complex processes unfold. Drawing on Walton and McKersie's (1991) work on neg…
Should we take the gig economy seriously?
The ‘gig economy’ has emerged rapidly as a form of service delivery that challenges existing business models, labour-management practices, and regulations. The ways in which platform companies transact with workers, in particular, has created a burgeoning public interest, but has yet to give rise to a corresponding academic literature. In this paper, we ask whether the gig economy deserves to be a subject of employment relations scholarship, give…
Sceptics or supporters? Consumers’ views of work in the gig economy
Labour‐management practices and workers’ experiences in the gig economy are topics of major interest for researchers, regulators and the general public. Platform companies project a vision of gig workers as autonomous freelancers, but pervasive features of their own labour practices, along with workers’ traits, create new vulnerabilities and risks. Efforts to improve gig workers’ conditions to date have made in‐roads without achieving a general s…
Systems for Conflict Resolution in Comparative Perspective
A cornerstone of industrial relations theory is the idea that the potential for conflict is inherent in the employment relationship. Across countries, forms of workplace conflict and methods of conflict resolution take a range of different forms. Yet aside from attempts to understand cross-national variation in strikes, little research has examined systemic differences in the manifestation and management of workplace conflict. The authors seek to…
Delivering the goods? German industrial relations institutions during the Covid ‐19 crisis
The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused labor market disruptions at an unprecedented scale and is akin to a stress test for industrial relations institutions. Drawing on a large‐scale ( n = 6111) study of German employees, we empirically investigate whether and how the two institutions comprising Germany's dual system of employee representation—works councils and collective bargaining—have delivered on their protective potential and mitigated the impact…
Bridging industrial relations and critical management studies: Work, resistance, and alternate imaginings in late capitalism
The study of work is central to understanding how changes in organizations and their environments impact lives and livelihoods. While industrial sociology and its concern with the organization of work are foundational to management and organization studies, scholars have bemoaned the waning interest in work and its evolution within these fields. In this article we seek to re-energize this tradition, arguing that Critical Management Studies (CMS) …
Labor–Management Relations
Labor–management relations (LMR) – also referred to as labor, employment, or industrial relations – concerns how relationships between employers and workers are regulated, organized, and experienced. As a field, LMR focuses on the specific institutions, social actors, and processes that shape the dynamics and outcomes of these employment relationships. Because LMR has profound implications for individual well‐being, organizational functioning, an…
Beyond the Audience: Rethinking Stakeholder Engagement in the Arts and Cultural Sector
This article explores how stakeholder engagement is enacted and understood by practitioners in Australian arts organizations. Data from 12 interviews are analyzed using a stakeholder engagement framework grounded in business ethics and management research. The findings underscore the definitional ambiguity surrounding engagement, which impedes consistent interpretation and application. Although community and audience priorities are emphasized, th…
The triangular relationship in platform gig work: Consumers, platform beneficence and worker vulnerability
Platform gig work is created and contested in dynamic, triangular relationships between platforms, workers, and consumers. Compared with the first two groups, however, evidence about the role of the third—consumers—is sparse. In this paper, we investigate consumers' changing perceptions of work in the platform gig economy and argue that their perspective warrants greater attention in sociological analyses. Using data from two Australian public op…
Feeling the heat? Union identity under labour market reforms
Union identity is widely seen as important to how trade unions function, yet it remains unclear how strongly it is embraced by members. We address this gap with a focus on German unions. In his seminal work on the ‘eternal triangle’ of union identity, Hyman situates German unions between the ‘market’ and ‘society’ dimensions. We examine whether members embraced their union's identity at a time when German unions faced intense political and econom…
Bridging disclosure and action: The role of intermediaries in gender pay gap regulation
The gender pay gap (GPG) has come to symbolise persistent inequalities women face at work. In response, governments are increasingly adopting regulation that requires employers to disclose gendered differences in pay, although often without compelling employers to address these pay gaps. An important question therefore arises over the role and capacity of non-state actors operating as regulatory intermediaries to hold employers accountable for cl…
Labor Movements and Unions (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 works) · Industrial Relations (4 works)