This paper starts from the premise advanced by Jurgens (2003) that there are discernible national models of production rather than a convergence of production systems. This paper examines the nature and impact of Japanese idea of continuous improvement on 14 automobile components companies in...

This paper examines the experience of two similar but contrasting firms in the Australian automotive parts industry in their attempts to adopt continuous improvement during the 1990's. The firms are similar in having devolved responsibility for quality checking to employees, having adopted...

We examine how discourses are mobilized and deployed by actors in an inter-organizational domain during a critical industrial relations event. We identify the ways that business interests and union interests in the Melbourne Port industrial dispute of 1997-98 related to each other. We weave...

Researchers have conducted surveys of firms in an attempt to test various theories of wage rigidity. The survey of Australian firms reported in this paper found strong support for the view that hiring and training costs are important reasons why employers do not reduce wages, consistent with the...

The case study in extending the school day in Latin America includes the following countries in this paper: Argentina, Rio Negro, Chile, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Uruguay, Argentina, Mendoza, El Salvador, and Mexico