TY - JOUR
T1 - Hospital bargaining in the wake of management reforms
T2 - Hungary and Slovakia compared
AU - Kahancová, Marta
AU - Szabó, Imre Gergely
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015.
PY - 2015/12
Y1 - 2015/12
N2 - This article analyses the impact of new public management on employment relations in public healthcare in Hungary and Slovakia. We argue that hospital corporatization – a process which changed the ownership structure and management of public hospitals without privatization – created an opportunity for institutional change in collective bargaining. However, the interaction between hospital owners and managements, the state and trade unions accounts for the absence of major institutional change. Instead, corporatization helped maintain bargaining coordination in Slovakia and bargaining fragmentation in Hungary.
AB - This article analyses the impact of new public management on employment relations in public healthcare in Hungary and Slovakia. We argue that hospital corporatization – a process which changed the ownership structure and management of public hospitals without privatization – created an opportunity for institutional change in collective bargaining. However, the interaction between hospital owners and managements, the state and trade unions accounts for the absence of major institutional change. Instead, corporatization helped maintain bargaining coordination in Slovakia and bargaining fragmentation in Hungary.
KW - Collective bargaining
KW - corporatization
KW - health care
KW - new public management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84948683275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0959680115580689
DO - 10.1177/0959680115580689
M3 - Article
SN - 0959-6801
VL - 21
SP - 335
EP - 352
JO - European Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - European Journal of Industrial Relations
IS - 4
ER -