RT Journal Article
T1 Inter-firm power relations and working conditions under new production models
A1 Rízquez, Mario
A1 Paz Antolín, María José
A1 Ruiz-Gálvez Juzgado, María Eugenia
AB In investigating recent changes to the automotive industry production process, such as modularisation, our work emphasises the process of fragmentation of production as a configuring element of inter-firm power relationships, and as an explanatory element in working conditions. From a theoretical framework focused on power relations, we analyse by way of a selected case study how the capabilities of companies and their network positions, together with the agency of labour, shape the power relations that influence the evolution of working conditions. The study does indeed find relevant changes to inter-firm relationships, for example, within networks of assemblers and suppliers, but without a consequent re-balancing of power. This finding serves to explain differences in the evolution of working conditions between distinct companies, these conditions being fully functional to a strategy for profitability and thus difficult to reverse.
PB Sage
SN 1838-2673
SN 1035-3046
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115555
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115555
LA eng
NO Paz, M. J., Rísquez, M., & Ruiz-Gálvez, M. E. (2022). Inter-firm power relations and working conditions under new production models. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(1), 138-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/1035304620982705
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025