TY - JOUR AB - The progress towards 1992 and the European Social Charter promise to draw UK industry further into the European pattern of employee relations. For many years Industrial Relations theory, in particular, has focused on our distinctive voluntarist and pragmatic tradition (Clegg, Flanders, Kahn‐Freund etc), while several Economic and Political writers (Marquand, MacInnes etc) have seen the associated patterns of strong trade union workplace organisation and anarchic, decentralised bargaining as major causes of Britain's economic decline. VL - 14 IS - 10 SN - 0140-9174 DO - 10.1108/eb028187 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028187 AU - Ackers Peter AU - Goodman John AU - Marchington Mick AU - Wilkinson Adrian PY - 1991 Y1 - 1991/01/01 TI - The Pecularities of the English: Pragmatism and Innovation in Management's Approach to Employee Involvement. Some Evidence from UK Industry T2 - Management Research News PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 36 EP - 36 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -