This research note examines consultation in a British utilities company since privatisation in 1990, raising the general issue of how changing workplace requirements for representation can be met with varying degrees of success by different groups of workers and their unions. This can mean that...

Books reviewed: H. Gospel and S. Wood. Representing Workers: Union Recognition and Membership in Britain. Reviewed by Melanie Simms Paul N. Gooderham and Odd Nordhaug (eds). International Management. Cross-boundary Challenges. Reviewed by Richard Croucher

We compare how far companies based in Africa, India and the "global North" operating in Mauritius adopt high-trust flexible working practices and how these are linked to different clusters of wider labour management practice. Using comprehensive firmlevel data collected in late 2011, we find...

We measure whether, in a developing country, existence of a "hard" strategic human resource management (SHRM) strategy developed at high organizational levels or one designed to enhance employee knowledge inputs and thereby promote employer-employee interdependence (EEIN) is a stronger...

In this paper we explore the link between firm labour productivity and the introduction of the NMW over a more than ten-year span covering longer periods before and after the NMW introduction. We use the FAME dataset which contains firm level micro data to calculate firm-specific labour...

This study reviews the literature on the link between working conditions, safety and health, skills development and productivity in SMEs, revealing evidence of an association between good workplace practices and various types of positive enterprise-level outcomes, including reduced employee...