How relevant are human resource (HR) practices in economies undergoing significant economic transition from a command to a market-based system? Using data drawn from a large sample of Chinese establishments, the authors investigate the spread of a range of Western-style HR practices in China and...

China’s economic transition has, on the face of it, presented the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) and its affiliated “grassroots” branches with a crisis similar to that experienced by unions in many other countries in the same period. Not only did membership decline, but the...

A major question for the comparative analysis of industrial relations and labour market institutions has been the extent to which labour laws in different countries have converged or diverged over time. A second question is whether any convergence between labour law systems is associated with...

An important dimension of this broader concept of innovation is 'workplace innovation'. One form of workplace innovation is the adoption of 'high performance' or 'high involvement' approaches within firms, such as work teams, multi-skilling and employee involvement schemes. In this paper, we are...

The Longitudinal Labour Regulation Index is a measure of the strength of a countries labour law. This index was originally developed Simon Deakin and colleagues at Cambridge University (see . This document provides full variable descriptions, the reasons for our coding and a summary of the data...

Following 13 years of Labor government at the Federal level a Liberal/National Party Coalition government was elected to office in the Australian general election of 1996. This government was subsequently re-elected in 1998, 2001, and again in 2004, before finally losing power in the 2007...

Over the last decade a large decline in union membership and influence has been observed in many countries. This observation has prompted many researchers to consider the means by which individual unions are able to mitigate the effects of less favourable economic and political conditions on...

Collective bargaining and agreement-making has been an established part of Australia’s arbitral model of industrial relations since its inception. Although the significance of bargaining and agreement-making has varied considerably over the course of the twentieth century and across different...

In this paper the authors utilise leximetric analysis, which involves the numerical coding of the strength of formal legal protections, to document changes in the level of worker protection and shareholder protection in six countries (Australia, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the...

This study is part of a larger international investigation of the effects of a country's legal origins on the style of business regulation. We employ an innovative 'leximetric' methodology to numerically code the protective strength of Australian corporate law for both shareholder and creditor...