TABLE OF CONTENTS:
 
........... List of Tables and Figures
1............ Foreword
2............ Introduction
3............ Paradigmatic theoretical approaches to the study of
........... industrial relations
3.1         Industrial Relations: A definition
3.2         Theories of industrial relations
3.2.1      Industrial relations as a social system
3.2.2      Actor-oriented analysis
3.2.2.1   Rational choice
3.2.2.2   Social action
3.2.3      Institutionalist analysis
3.2.3.1   Historical institutionalism3.2.3.2   Steeringstheoretical institutionalism
3.2.4      Human resource management
3.2.5      Comparative approach
3.2.6      Industrial relations systems
3.3         Political economy approach
3.3.1      The free-market approach
3.3.2      Marxist analysis
3.3.3      Theory of regulation
3.3.4      Corporatism
3.3.5      Welfare State Regimes
3.3.6      Varieties or Models of Capitalism
3.4         Theoretical synthesis
4............ Globalization and its impact
4.1         Globalization, Internationalization, Regionalization and Imperialism
4.2         Analytical framework for the study of globalization
4.3         Economic globalization
4.3.1      Areas and main drivers of economic globalization
4.4         The globalization discourse
4.5         Empirical evidence
4.5.1      Globalization of Trade
4.5.2      Globalization of financial markets
4.5.3      Foreign Direct Investment
4.5.4      Global Production
4.6         Globalization processes in ethical pharmaceutical industries
4.6.1      History of the pharmaceutical industry
4.6.2      Sector specifics: A snapshot
5............ Guiding hypothesis
6............ Industrial Relations institutions and processes: Comparing
........... the United Kingdom and Germany
6.1         Industrial Relations in the German pharmaceutical industry under pressure from globalization, Europeanization and re-unification: erosion, adaptation or path change?
6.1.1      Codetermination levels
6.1.1.1   Codetermination on the supervisory board
6.1.1.2   Co-determination at workplace level: institutions and practices
6.1.1.3   Quantitative development of co-determination
6.1.2      Collective bargaining: stable structures, blurring practices and
               new actors
6.1.2.1   Structure of collective bargaining
MARGIN: 3pt -2.55pt 0pt 45.1pt"6.1.3      Centralized industrial relations under pressure: trend towards the workplace level
6.1.4      Impact of globalization on industrial relations in the German pharmaceutical industry
6.1.5      Conclusion: assessing the changes in the industrial relations’ system of the German ethical pharmaceutical industry
6.2       Industrial Relations in the United Kingdom’s pharmaceutical industry: decentralization, fragmentation, juridification and the growing influence of EU legislation
6.2.1      Employee representation: unionized versus non-unionized
6.2.2      Structure of collective bargaining: importance of the workplace level
6.2.3      Conclusion: Impact of globalisation on industrial relations in the British pharmaceutical industry
7............ Conclusion: Impact of globalization on industrial relations
8............ Literature