IndBez - Industrielle Beziehungen

Industrial relations are those networks, institutions and systems in which the various actors in the world of work are integrated and with which they factually shape and normatively regulate their economic exchange relations and social conflict relations.

Today, it is no longer sufficient to describe these actors with the traditional dichotomous model of capital and labor; their manifold differentiation into roles, coalitions and organizations as well as their increasing interdependence require more complex analytical concepts.

In Anglo-Saxon countries, industrial relations was able to establish itself early on as an independent field of science and practice. In the German-speaking world, this field received attention only from a small circle of specialists from different disciplines, although the German institutional solution to industrial conflict was studied with great interest in many countries because of its success.

Recently, greater attention has been paid to industrial relations in Germany as well. It is primarily the organizational and technical upheavals in the world of work and the political changes in Europe that pose new challenges to scholars and practitioners. European unification provokes the comparison of historically developed national systems of industrial relations and raises the question of their efficiency for conflict and problem management in a dynamic economy determined by global competition. Industrial relations are now also seen as a central task of management. The subtitle - Work, Organization and Management - reflects these changes.

The journal aims to make the aforementioned change a topic of discussion and offers all those interested in industrial relations an up-to-date forum for analysis and discussion.