Hospital bargaining in the wake of management reforms: Hungary and Slovakia compared

Marta Kahancová, Imre Gergely Szabó

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)335-352
Number of pages18
JournalEuropean Journal of Industrial Relations
Volume21
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2015

Keywords

  • Collective bargaining
  • corporatization
  • health care
  • new public management

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