Wage inequality is a particular focus of attention not only in public debates over the need for social regulation to support equity, but those over the implications of social regulation for productive performance. The present paper employs panel techniques to examine the comparative historical...

Strategic human resource management has been linked to competitive advantage and in turn to organizational performance. This linkage has been viewed from a universal, a contextual or a configurational perspective. Adopting the latter perspective, the authors of the present study investigate the...

This paper uses insights and data gained from 15 years of involvement in a research network studying HRM developments in Europe to explore the notion of 'European HRM' and the meanings of convergence and divergence in HRM Using data from the last decade of the Cranet research, the paper puts...

This thesis isconcerned with understanding the expectations that corporateemployees formabout the work- and career-related outcomes of aninternational assignment.Suchexpectations arefrequentlycited asbeing "unreasonable"and a majorsource of problemsin the repatriation and reintegration...

The keyobjectivesfor this research were to:() Provide adatabase inorder to extend the knowledgeandunderstanding of the management and use of overtime across thewhole economy;ii) Review and test a range of research questions andhypothesesconcerning specific problems and controversies surrounding...

This research is about financing practices of Pakistani-immigrant and indigenous-ownedsmall travel agents. The study provides an understanding of the capital structures ofbusinesses owned by both groups and compares these to draw similarities and differencesbetween both groups. The research...

Strategic human resource management has been linked to competitive advantage and in turn to organizational performance. This linkage has been viewed from a universal, a contextual or a configurational perspective. Adopting the latter perspective, the authors of the present study investigate the...