Professor Marco Hauptmeier

Professor of Work and Employment, Pro Dean for Doctoral Studies

Marco Hauptmeier is Professor of Work and Employment and Pro Dean for Doctoral Studies at Cardiff Business School. His research in the area of international and comparative employment relations focusses on collective actors, including labour unions, European Works Councils and employers' organisations, inquiring how collective action is possible and results in collaborative advantages. He won an ESRC Future Research Leader grant for a study on UK employers' organisations and his current project, funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation, extends this research to the European level, focussing on European employer organisations. He has held academic visiting positions at the Juan March Institute in Madrid, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Boston University and Cornell’s ILR School. Marco is a Welsh Crucible and Cardiff Futures Alumni as well as the academic lead of the Cardiff Public Uni, an event series, in which more than 120 academics have presented their research to the public.

2024

Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2024. Beyond liberalization: Employers' organizations' varied responses to employment law. Employee Relations 46(7), pp. 1550-1565. (10.1108/ER-06-2023-0285)
Erne, R., Hauptmeier, M., Pulignano, V. and Turnbull, P. 2024. Introduction to a special issue: Social Europe: The changing contours of transnational employment relations in the European Union. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 77(5), pp. 643-658. (10.1177/00197939241273523)

2023

Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2023. Union coalitions and strategic framing: The case of the Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales. Work, Employment and Society 37(5), pp. 1226-1243. (10.1177/09500170211069787)
Pulignano, V., Hauptmeier, M. and Frans, D. 2023. Determinants of union strategies towards the twin digital and green transitions in the German and Belgian automotive industry. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 29(1) (10.1177/10242589231158)

2022

Aranea, M., Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2022. Beyond social dialogue: the varied activities of European employers' organizations. In: Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. eds. Contemporary Employers' Organizations Adaptation and Resilience. Routledge, pp. 263-276.
Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2022. Employers' organizations and the territorial divergence of employment relations in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. In: Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. eds. Contemporary Employers' Organizations Adaptation and Resilience. Routledge, pp. 213-228.
Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2022. The adaptation and resilience of employers' organizations. In: Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. eds. Contemporary Employers' Organizations Adaptation and Resilience. Routledge, pp. 1-20.
Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. eds. 2022. Contemporary employers' organizations: Adaptation and resilience. Routledge Research in Employment Relations. New York: Routledge.

2021

Demougin, P., Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2021. Revisiting voluntarism: private voluntary regulation by employer forums in the United Kingdom. Journal of Industrial Relations 63(5), pp. 684-705. (10.1177/00221856211038308)
Aranea, M., Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2021. What do European Employers` Organisations do?. Working paper. Hans Böckler Foundation. Available at: https://www.boeckler.de/en/faust-detail.htm?sync_id=HBS-008113
, M., , P., Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2021. Handbook of European employers' organisations. Working paper. Hans Böckler Foundation. Available at: https://www.boeckler.de/en/faust-detail.htm?sync_id=HBS-008096
Morgan, G. and Hauptmeier, M. 2021. The social organization of ideas in employment relations. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 74(3), pp. 773-797. (10.1177/0019793920987518)

2020

Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2020. A typology of employers' organisations in the United Kingdom. Economic and Industrial Democracy 41(1), pp. 229-248. (10.1177/0143831X17704499)
Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2020. The decay and revival of sub-UK employer organisation: a response to Dr. Ritson. Labor History 61(5-6), pp. 417-422. (10.1080/0023656X.2020.1830958)

2019

Demougin, P., Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2019. The unexpected survival of employer collective action in the UK. Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations 74(2), pp. 353-376. (10.7202/1062087ar)
Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2019. Employers' organisations and public value. In: Lindgreen, A. et al. eds. Public Value: Deepening, Enriching, and Broadening the Theory and Practice. Routledge, pp. 236-251.
Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2019. The decline of Employers' Associations in the UK, 1976 to 2014. Journal of Industrial Relations 61(1), pp. 11-32. (10.1177/0022185617750418)
Demougin, P., Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2019. Employer organisations transformed. Human Resource Management Journal 29(1), pp. 1-16. (10.1111/1748-8583.12222)
Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2019. The evolution of employers' organisations in the United Kingdom: extending countervailing power. Human Resource Management Journal 29(1), pp. 82-96. (10.1111/1748-8583.12193)

2018

Gooberman, L., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2018. Contemporary employer interest representation in the United Kingdom. Work, Employment and Society 32(1), pp. 114-132. (10.1177/0950017017701074)

2017

Bowkett, C., Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. J. 2017. Exploring the role of employer forums - the case of Business in the Community Wales. Employee Relations 39(7), pp. 986-1000. (10.1108/ER-11-2016-0229)
Hauptmeier, M. 2017. New Worlds of Work: Varieties of Work in Car Factories in the BRIC Countries by Jürgens Ulrich and Martin Krzywdzinski. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016, 368 pp., ISBN: 9780198722670, £55.00, hardback.. British Journal of Industrial Relations 55(4), pp. 883-885. (10.1111/bjir.12262)
Hann, D., Hauptmeier, M. and Waddington, J. 2017. European Works Councils after two decades. European Journal of Industrial Relations 23(3), pp. 209-224. (10.1177/0959680117715190)
Heery, E., Gooberman, L. and Hauptmeier, M. 2017. The petroleum driver passport scheme: a case study in reregulation. Industrial Relations Journal 48(3), pp. 274-291. (10.1111/irj.12179)

2016

Greer, I. and Hauptmeier, M. 2016. Management whipsawing: the staging of labor competition under globalization. ILR Review 69(1), pp. 29-52. (10.1177/0019793915602254)

2015

Hauptmeier, M. 2015. Book review. Private equity at work. Socio-economic Review 13(4), pp. 815-818. (10.1093/ser/mwv026)
Hauptmeier, M. 2015. Book review. Employer and worker collective action: a comparative study of Germany, South Africa, and the United States. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 68(4), pp. 969-970. (10.1177/0019793915587909)
Greer, I. and Hauptmeier, M. 2015. Marketization and social dumping: management whipsawing in Europe's automotive industry. In: Bernaciak, M. ed. Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 125-139.

2014

Hauptmeier, M. and Heery, E. 2014. Ideas at work. International Journal of Human Resource Management 25(18), pp. 2473-2488. (10.1080/09585192.2014.936235)
Anner, M., Greer, I., Hauptmeier, M., Lillie, N. and Winchester, N. 2014. Determinantes industriais da solidariedade transnacional: política intersindical global em três setores. Estudos Avançados 28(81), pp. 229-250. (10.1590/S0103-40142014000200016)
Morgan, G. and Hauptmeier, M. 2014. Varieties of institutional theory in comparative employment relations. In: Wilkinson, A., Wood, G. and Deeg, R. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations - Comparative Employment Systems. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 190-221., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695096.013.009)
Hauptmeier, M. and Vidal, M. eds. 2014. Comparative political economy of work. Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisations. Palgrave Macmillan.
Vidal, M. and Hauptmeier, M. 2014. Comparative political economy and labour process theory: toward a synthesis. In: Hauptmeier, M. and Vidal, M. eds. Comparative Political Economy of Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-32.
Hauptmeier, M. and Morgan, G. 2014. Ideas and institutions? The evolution of employment relations in the Spanish and German auto industry. In: Hauptmeier, M. and Vidal, M. eds. Comparative Political Economy of Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 162-185.

2012

Hauptmeier, M. 2012. Institutions are what actors make of them - the changing construction of firm-level employment relations in Spain. British Journal of Industrial Relations 50(4), pp. 737-759. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.2012.00891.x)
Greer, I. and Hauptmeier, M. 2012. Identity work: sustaining transnational collective action at General Motors Europe. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 51(2), pp. 275-299. (10.1111/j.1468-232X.2012.00677.x)

2011

Delbridge, R., Hauptmeier, M. and Sengupta, S. 2011. Beyond the enterprise: broadening the horizons of International HRM. Human Relations 64(4), pp. 483-505. (10.1177/0018726710396388)

2010

Hauptmeier, M. 2010. Reassessing markets and employment relations. In: Blyton, P. R., Heery, E. J. and Turnbull, P. J. eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship. Management, Work and Organisations Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-194.

2009

Hauptmeier, M. and Greer, I. 2009. Between local interests and international solidarity: Negotiating restructuring at General Motors Europe. Working paper. CERIC (Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change, Leeds University Business School). Available at: http://lubswww2.leeds.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Greer_Hauptmeier_WP7.pdf

2008

Greer, I. and Hauptmeier, M. 2008. Political entrepreneurs and co-managers: labour transnationalism at four multinational auto companies. British Journal of Industrial Relations 46(1), pp. 76-97. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.2007.00667.x)

2007

Hauptmeier, M. 2007. Political insiders and social activists: coalition building in New York and Los Angeles. In: Turner, L. and Cornfield, D. B. eds. Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy. Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series Vol. 12. Ithaca: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, pp. 129-146.
Hauptmeier, M. 2007. Dunkle Wolken über Detroit: Die Krise in der amerikanischen Automobilindustrie. Fokus Amerika, article number: 1.

2006

Anner, M., Greer, I., Hauptmeier, M., Lillie, N. and Winchester, N. J. 2006. The Industrial Determinants of Transnational Solidarity: Global Interunion Politics in Three Sectors. European Journal of Industrial Relations 12(1), pp. 7-27. (10.1177/0959680106061368)

2005

Hauptmeier, M. 2005. Aufstand gegen den Niedergang: Die Spaltung der amerikanischen Gewerkschaftsbewegung [The insurgency against the demise: the split of the American labor movement]. Die Mitbestimmung 51(10), pp. 46-49.

Research interests

Comparative Employment Relations/HRM/ Political Economy
Employment relations and HRM in the auto industry
Institutional theory and institutional change
The role of ideas and constructivism in employment relations
Transnational employment relations in MNCs

PhD supervision research interests

Comparative employment relations/HRM
Employee representation and voice in multinational companies
Labour unions and collective bargaining
Sociology of markets

Teaching commitments

International Management (UG and PG)
Qualitative Research Methods (PhD students)

Qualifications

PhD Cornell University
MA University of Bonn
BA University of Münster

Honours and awards

Co-winner of the Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award in 2009, which recognizes the best PhD thesis in employment relations in the USA.

Contact Details

HauptmeierM@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 75080
Aberconway Building, Room S34, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

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