This paper aims to give a comprehensive overview by exploring the research breadth in the area of emerging High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) research with special reference to the ‘service’ context by reviewing the existing literature using a bibliometric approach. A portfolio of 149...

We propose a unified analytical framework to understand both the complementarity between computer use and innovative organisational practices and the selection principles that guide their diffusion at the work station level. We show that the common selection principles governing the allocation...

This chapter reviews economic studies on multitasking in household production. Whereas multitasking or task juggling in the workplace has been analyzed more widely, economic literature on multitasking in a household is relatively scarce. The chapter first provides relevant measures of such...

This article is devised to understand the intricacies of a High-Performance Work System (HPWS) which is comparatively, a modern evolutionary resultant of Human Resource Development Metrics and its analysis. A High-Performance Work System is a specific combination of HR activities, workflow...

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...

Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in both 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, we find evidence that high-performance...