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The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations

The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations Comparative Employment Systems

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 9780199695096
  • Published In: March 2014
  • Format: Hardback , 384 pages
  • Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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  • Provides frameworks and empirical evidence for understanding employment relations in a truly comparative context
  • Interdisciplinary approach to link together distinct theoretical approaches

There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional 'silos', such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties of capitalism, with limited dialogue between different approaches to enhance understanding of institutional effects. Again, evaluations of the relationship between institutions and employment relations have tended to be of the broad-brushstroke nature, often founded on macro-data, and with only limited attention being accorded to internal diversity and details of actual practice. The Handbook aims to fill this gap by bringing together an assembly of comprehensive and high quality chapters to enable understanding of changes in employment relations since the early 1970s. Theoretically-based chapters attempt to link varieties of capitalism, business systems, and different modes of regulation to the specific practice of employment relations, and offer a truly comparative treatment of the subject, providing frameworks and empirical evidence for understanding trends in employment relations in different parts of the world.

Most notably, the Handbook seeks to incorporate at a theoretical level regulationist accounts and recent work that link bounded internal systemic diversity with change, and, at an applied level, a greater emphasis on recent applied evidence, specifically dealing with the employment contract, its implementation, and related questions of work organization. It will be useful to academics and students of industrial relations, political economy, and management.

 

Readership: Academics, researchers, and students in Business, Management, HRM, Industrial Relations, Sociology, Labour Economics, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics

1: Adrian Wilkinson, Geoffrey Wood and Richard Deeg  : Introduction: Comparative Employment Systems
Section I: Defining the Field
2: Geoffrey Wood and Adrian Wilkinson: Institutions and Employment Relations
3: Harry Katz and Nick Wailes: Convergence and Divergence in Employment Relations
Section II: Institutions and Employment Relations Alternative Accounts, New Insights
4: Cathie Jo Martin: Getting down to business: Varieties of Capitalism and Employment Relations
5: Matt Allen: Business Systems Theory and Employment Relations
6: Robert Boyer: Developments and Extensions of Regulation Theory and Employment Relations
7: Christel Lane and Geoffrey Wood: Capitalist Diversity, Work and Employment Relations
8: Chris Brewster, Marc Goergen and Geoffrey Wood  : Ownership Rights and Employment Relations.
9: Glenn Morgan and Marco Hauptmeier: Varrieties of Institutional Theory in Comparative Employment Relations
10: Niall Cullinane: Institutions and the Industrial Relations Tradition
11: Franco Barchiesi: Conflict, Order and Change
Section III: Comparative Evidence
12: Gregory Jackson and Anja Kirsch: Liberal Markets
13: Kristine Nergaard: Social Democratic Capitalism
14: Bob Hancké: Employment Regimes , Wage Setting and Monetary Union in Continental Europe
15: Harald Conrad: Continuity and Change in Asian Employment Systems: A Comparison of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
16: Martin Myant: Economies Undergoing Long Transition: Employment Relations in Central and Eastern Europe
17: Johann Maree: Employment relations in Africa
18: Jose Aleman: The Left Turn in Latin America: Consequences for Employment Relations
19: Michele Ford: Developing Societies: Asia
20: Frank Horwitz: Employment Relations in the BRICs Countries
Section IV: Substantive Themes
21: Michel Goyer, Juliane Reinecke, and Jimmy Donaghey: Globalization and Labour Market Governance
22: Barbara Pocock: Work, Bodies, Care: Gender and Employment in a Global World
23: Michael Barry, Adrian Wilkinson, Paul J Gollan and Senia Kalfa: Where Are the Voices? New Directions in Voice and Engagement Across the Globe
24: Heidi Gottfried: Insecure Employment: Diversity and Change
25: Samanthi J Gunawardana and Lindah Mhando: The Migration-Development Nexus, Women Workers and Transnational Employment Relations
26: Colin Crouch: The Neo-liberal Turn and the Implications for Labour
Section V: Reflections
27: Guglielmo G Meardi: The State and Employment Relations
28: Peter Fairbrother: Unions
29: Gilton Klerck: Institutions, Management Strategies and HRM
30: Fang Lee Cook and Geoffrey Wood: New Actors in Employment Relations
31: Sabina Avdagic and Lucio Baccaro: The Future of Employment Relations in Advanced Capitalism: Inexorable Decline?

Adrian Wilkinson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University, Australia. Prior to his 2006 appointment, Adrian was Professor of Human Resource Management at Loughborough University. Adrian has also worked at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He holds Visiting Professorships at Loughborough University, Sheffield University, and the University of Durham, and is an Academic Fellow at the Centre for International Human Resource Management at the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge. He has authored/co-authored /edited twenty books and over one hundred and forty articles in academic journals.

Geoffrey Wood is Professor of International Business, University of Warwick Previously, he was Professor and Director of Research at Middlesex University Business School and before that, taught at Rhodes University, South Africa and Coventry University, Coventry, UK. He currently is Overseas Research Associate of the University of the Witwatersrand. He has authored/co-authored/edited twelve books, and over one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Work and Occupations, Work Employment and Society, Organization Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Relations, Economy and Society, Human Resource Management (US)

Richard Deeg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Temple University. He received his PhD from MIT and has been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. He has written extensively on financial market regulation, institutional theory, and varieties of capitalism. His publications include Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy (University of Michigan, 1999) and dozens of articles on German and European political economy in various journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Economy & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Small Business Economics, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, and World Politics.

 

Contributors: 
Jose Aleman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
Matthew Allen, Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, The University of Manchester 
Sabina Avdagic, Research Fellow University of Sussex
Lucio Baccaro, Professor, University of Geneva 
Franco Barchiesi, Associate Professor of African-American and African Studies, Ohio State University
Michael Barry ,Associate Professor ,Griffith University
Robert Boyer, Economist, Centre Pour La Recherche Economique et SES Applications (CEPREMAP)
Chris Brewster, Professor of International Human Resource Management, University of Reading
Harald Conrad, Sasakawa Lecturer in Japan's Economy and Management, The University of Sheffield
Fang Lee Cooke, Professor of Human Resource Management and Chinese Studies, Monash University 
Colin Crouch, Emeritus Professor, The University of Warwick
Niall Cullinane, Lecturer in Management, Queen's University
Richard Deeg,Professor of Political Science ,Temple University
Jimmy Donaghey, Associate Professor of Industrial Relations, The University of Warwick
Peter Fairbrother, Professor of International Employment Relations, RMIT University
Michele Ford, Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies, The University of Sydney
Richard Deeg Professor of Political Science ,Temple University 
Marc Goergen, Professor of Finance, Cardiff University
Heidi Gottfried at Wayne State University
Paul J Gollan Professor of Management, Macquarie University
Michel Goyer, Senior Lecturer, birmingham Business School, Univeristy of Birmingham
Samanthi J Gunawardana, Lecturer in International and Comparative Employment Relations, Griffith University
Bob Hancké, Reader in European Political Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science 
Marco Hauptmeier, Lecturer in International Human Resource Management, Cardiff University
Frank Horwitz, Professor of International Human Resource Management, Cranfield University
Gregory Jackson, Professor of Management, Freie Universität Berlin
Senia Kalfa ,Research Fellow Macquarie University
Harry Katz, Professor of Collective Bargaining, Cornell University
Anja Kirsch, Researcher in International and Comparative Employment Relations, Freie Universität Berlin
Gilton Klerck, Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University
Christel Lane, Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Cambridge
Cathie Jo Martin, Professor of Political Science at Boston University
Johann Maree, Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
Guglielmo G Meardi ,Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Warwick
Dr Lindah Mhando, Professor Penn State University
Glenn Morgan, Professor of International Management, Cardiff University
Martin Myant, Professor of Economics , University of the West of Scotland
Kristine Nergaard, Research Coordinator, Fafo, Institute for Labour and Social Research
Barbara Pocock, Professor of Work, Employment and Industrial Relations, University of South Australia
Juliane Reinecke, Associate Professor Warwick Business School
Nick Wailes, Associate Professor of Comparative Employment Relations and Strategic Management, The University of Sydney
Adrian Wilkinson, Professor of Employment Relations, Griffith University
Geoffrey Wood, Professor of International Business, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

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