Purpose – Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economy, in terms of employment and their contribution to national wealth. A significant proportion of that contribution comes from innovation. SMEs are also the engine for future growth in the economy. Project...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider a number of issues around the poor adoption of healthcare simulation models and reflect whether there has been a broad failure of academic healthcare simulation modellers to build models that reflect real healthcare problems as acknowledged by...

Purpose – The authors propose that small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) need simpler, more people‐focused forms of project management than traditionally used by larger organizations. The authors have undertaken this research to identify to what extent SMEs use project management and...

States that the future of trade unionism depends partly on structural factors such as the level of unemployment and also on workers coming to believe that unionism is essential to protect their interests. Draws from the literature on social movements to analyse the ways in which workers arrive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the state of knowledge on strikes and collective action. Design/methodology/approach – Review of theoretical and empirical literature, including comparative literature. Findings – Both strike activity and other forms of collective action...

Part 1 Comparative employment relations. 1 Introduction: global challenges at work / John Kelly and Carola Frege; 2 Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations / Carola Frege and John Kelly -- Part 2 Employment relations challenges in comparative perspective. 3 Globalization and...