In the 1990s, Korean enterprise unions have faced radical changes in personnel and work organisation policies in the wave of employer-led enterprise restructuring, accelerated in particular after the national economic crisis of 1997. This study empirically and theoretically examines whether isolated enterprise bargainings exclusively occurring at enterprise levels are inferior to coordinated bargainings beyond enterprise levels in defending employment security in this context.
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