Hoe IS-glossy Dabiq harten van westerse moslims wint

IS propaganda is assumed to contribute to radicalization of Western Muslims. How IS propaganda reaches the hearts and minds of Western Muslims and consequently fuels radicalization is nonetheless an understudied topic. Through content analysis of all fifteen issues of IS-glossy Dabiq this article demonstrates how IS propaganda works in Dabiq. First, IS attunes in Dabiq to factors that foster radicalization according to the literature. IS does so by its discussion in Dabiq of injustice done to Muslims worldwide, the image of the Western enemy, and its positive presentation of the individual and group identity of IS fighters. Second, in Dabiq IS paves the way for embracing violent means, such as terrorist attacks on Western civilians through a discourse of ‘denial’

Legge e autonomia collettiva al tempo del Jobs Act: appunti tra retorica e realtà

Contributo sul rapporto tra ordinamento giuslavoristico e relazioni industriali alla luce del Jobs Ac

Rethinking Corporate Governance: from Shareholder Value to Stakeholder Value

The economic orthodoxy of ‘light-touch’ regulation has been widely discredited by recent events in the financial markets, and shareholder-oriented management has come under intense scrutiny. As a result this collection of papers aims to consider the merits of stakeholder-oriented economies. In this volume, 35 scholars examine case studies and scenarios in a number of countries, ranging from economic powers such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany to post-socialist states such as Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria and emerging countries such as Brazil, Russia, and India. Further studies deal with developments in Singapore and Nigeria, as well as in South Africa and other countries. With contributions from leading experts from all around the world in the fields of labour law, industrial relations, labour economics, labour statistics, human resources management, organization theory and other related subjects, the book focuses on the impact of the global economic crisis and its implications for the future of employment. Specific matters covered include: adversarial versus strategic collective bargaining; transnational collective bargaining; long-term employees as corporate stakeholders; workers’ voice and participation in the restructuring of undertakings; privatization of state-owned companies; executive pay; investment in vocational training in times of economic crisis; the impact of the EU’s Cross-Border Merger Directive; inherent dangers in the EMU one-size-fits-all monetary policy; and large-scale corporate fraud. With theoretical arguments and empirical data, this volume aims to contribute to the debate over whether shareholder or stakeholder approaches to management yield the best results in terms of employment outcomes. As the recession continues to take its toll on employment, pension funds, public services, and living standards, the book will be of interest to policymakers and legal scholars worldwide who are concerned with the future of employment relations and their effect on productivity and social stability

Home country advantage? The influence of Italian, German and Austrian employee representatives in the UniCredit European Works Council

This article examines the first European Works Council (EWC) to be established in the Italian banking sector, at UniCredit. It focuses on the interaction between Italian, German and Austrian delegations of employee representatives and on the perspectives and practices that reflect their different cultural and institutional backgrounds in industrial relations. Much of the literature suggests that employee representatives from the home country of a multinational company are likely to mould EWC structures in accordance with their own national backgrounds and have greater confidence in dealing with central management in EWC meetings. Our findings partly substantiate this argument, but also suggest that minority delegations, when they have the benefit of strong national institutional arrangements and less fragmented union patterns, are more likely to be cohesive and experienced and therefore are able to challenge management and sometimes win significant arguments over strategy

Labour and Social Rights: An Evolving Scenario. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference in Commemoration of Marco Biagi

This book contains a selection of papers from the Twelfth International Conference in commemoration of Marco Biagi, held at the Marco Biagi Foundation in Modena, Italy on 18-19 March 2014, entitled Labour and Social Rights: An Evolving Scenario1. The aim of the Conference was to promote a discussion on one of the most important effects of the global economic crisis, i.e. the redefinition of the link between labour relations and social protection, undermining the special status of labour law. In the present scenario, labour law scholars are facing a dilemma: on the one hand there are those who argue that labour and employment law should be merged into more extensive or neutral fields; on the other hand, there are those who defend the traditional framework, modified to reflect the changing nature of employment and the underlying interests and identities. The analytical perspective proposed to tackle this issue was that of social rights. The use of this term, in the modern sense, not limited to rights deriving from public policy, was intended to highlight the main factors giving rise to changes at micro level in the balance of power and bargaining positions associated with the two sides of industry, and, at macro level, to the increasing asymmetry between the civil and social aspects of labour law regulation, deemed to be in conflict in the arguments put forward by policy-makers and the courts (in particular the Court of Justice of the European Union)