The “old” psychological contract, with its emphasis on employment security, has been held to have been violated because of extensive downsizing among white‐collar employees from the late 1980s and early 1990s. This proposition is tested here using multivariate analysis based on a...

This study presents the first empirical analysis of the determinants of firm closure in the UK with an emphasis on the role of export-market dynamics, using panel data for a nationally representative group of firms operating in all-market based sectors during 1997-2003. Our findings show that...

Nationally representative data on family businesses is available in the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, alongside comparable information for other types of firms. We use this data to compare differences in the use of different consultation and communication procedures. We cover such...