SWAIN A. (1998) Governing the workplace: the workplace and regional development implications of automotive direct foreign investment in Hungary, Reg. Studies 32, 653-671. This paper examines the connections that exist between the workplace implications of automotive foreign direct investment in...

Essential hypertensive and asthmatic patients, plus normal non-clinical controls, were compared on a number of psychological measures in order to identify the relationship between psychological distress, coping strategies and compliance behaviour. The hypothesised relationship between chronic...

This paper tries to show that the debate on small firm industrial relations has stalled and argues that little advance of any great significance has been made in the last decade.

The study concluded that the Hatfield Polytechnic made a net economic contribution in the local economy.

The origins of this paper lie in the formation of the Film Industry Research Group in the Business School at the University of Hertfordshire. This was driven by the re-emergence of film production as a high profile industry within the county. Subsequently, the importance of the film industry...

The purpose of this paper is to begin the process of analysing the dynamics influencing the organisation of work research scientists in the industry.

Theorists of work and employment (W&E) practices should more seriously engage with literatures concerning how space is constitutive of social praxis. Rather than simply serving as a stage upon which social life is played out or being merely a reflection of social relations, the construction of...

It has been suggested that moves towards Just In Time systems of production bring with them a fundamental change in the nature of the buyer-supplier relationship. New long-term, high-trust relationships are supposed to replace a win:win for the old win:lose equation. Equally, the new flexibility...

The contention in this article is that an integrated approach can be used to analyse industrial relations in small firms and to investigate the image of industrial harmony. This integrated approach, incorporating the dialectical relationship between structural forces and human agency, is...