International Human Resource Management offers a contemporary and multilayered introduction to international and comparative human resource management for university study. It critically analyses the core issues and emerging trends in the field, with a consistent emphasis on real-world scenarios...

Many acts of sacrifice cannot be accounted for as instances of sophisticated selfishness, altruism, Kantian duty, or collusion of the powerful. Economists find these acts puzzling and seek to accomodate them within standard instrumental models of increasing complexity. The paper argues in favor...

An experiment with the hawk-dove game showed that if players observe solely an arbitrary and trivial characteristic of their opponent (e.g. a colour label assigned randomly to each player at the outset), a pattern of discrimination may evolve (i.e. those possessing one of the two colours will...

In an earlier paper (Arnsperger and Varoufakis, 1999) we proposed solidatiry as an umbrella concept encompassing acts (or inclinations to perform them) motivated by a felling that some group (e.g. refugees) is entitled to our support independantly (a) of our sympathy (or lack therof) for its...

This paper argues in favour of introducing solidarity into economics as a new analytical category of human motivation which encompasses all forms of other-regarding behaviour (e.g. utilitarian altruism, evolved natural sympathy, Kantian imperatives) but which, additionally, can be refined so as...