Explaining the way organizations go about identifying and developing their managers will require some understanding of internal priorities and decision processes, as well as more macro factors like the national institutional context. We might also expect cultural factors to play an important...

Summary Diversity, a 'voluntary' concern as seen through the Anglo-Saxon lens, and discrimination, a 'legal' mandated concern as seen through the same lens, have simultaneously been gaining popularity in France since 2003. In this respect, this country is undergoing a regulation process with...

With lagging productivity rates in key industrial sectors, many firms in the UK and the USA have struggled to remain competitive against low cost imports from newly industrialized countries. Structural readjustments by firms have involved downsizing and efforts to reorganize the labor process....

The clothing industry is both a quintessential global industry and one that is inescapably labour intensive. Despite more and more production shifting to low wage economies in the past decades, there remains a significant amount of clothing manufacturing in high wage economies. This study...

This paper explores variations in the pattern of colliery level industrial relations following the privatization of British Coal in four pits operated by the largest coal mining company in the UK. Differences are explained in terms of the competing institutions representing mineworkers and, most...