This paper compares human resource (HR) and industrial relations (IR) practices in the workplaces of predominantly Australian and predominantly overseas-owned organisations. It advances understanding of HR/IR in Australia and elsewhere by considering two questions. First, whether...

Since the early 1990s, there has been increasing academic interest in a range of labour management practices labelled variously as "high commitment management", "high involvement management" and "High Performance Work Systems" (HPWS). Such sets of practices - which include performance-related...

Building on the study of innovation in American national unions, this article specifies and tests a model of the determinants of innovation in Australian trade unions. The results generally support the principal Delaney, Jarley, and Fiorito (1996) finding that the degree of union innovative...

This paper reviews literature that examines the design, implementation and use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs). It finds that most of this literature is managerialist in orientation, and concerned with the impact of ERPs in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and business...

The nature and organisation of creative industries and the creative economy has received increased attention in recent academic and policy literatures (Florida 2002; Grabher 2002; Scott 2006a). Constituted as one variant on new economy narratives, creativity, alongside knowledge, has been presented as a...

A nyugati üzleti élet elméleti szakemberei a versenyelőnyöket újabban egyre inkább az "erős kultúrájú" cégeknek ígérik. A tanulmány mindenekelőtt az e prognosztizálások mögött rejlő előfeltételeket veszi számba, majd azt vizsgálja, hogy a vállalati kultúra elmélete...

Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate edu- cation within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large nonselective public university. Admission to the Honors...

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help reduce costs, this study considers the implications these...