Over the last three decades neoclassical economic theory has become the dominate approach for the study of labor, most clearly in North America but also increasingly in Europe and elsewhere. Rival heterodox approaches, on the other hand, are threatened with marginalization, partly due to the...

Books reviewed in this article: Kirsten Wever, Labor, Business and Change in Germany and the United States Ian Clark, Governance, the State, Regulation and Industrial Relations Raymond Markey, Paul Gollan, Ann Hodgkinson, Alain Chouraqui and Ulke Veersama (eds), Models of Employee Participation...

Theorizing in strategic human resource management has identified a "configurational" perspective in which firms put together distinct bundles of HRM practices called "employment systems" in order to exploit complementarities and synergies. This paper provides the most sophisticated and in-depth...

This paper makes three innovative contributions to the field of human resource management. First, an HRM frequency distribution is presented that depicts the key empirical facts that form the center of research in the field; second, a new microeconomics-based model is presented that develops a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to take a serious look at the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, while at the same time accounting for the (possible) interactions with similar union and management-led high commitment strategies....