This paper explores empirically the economic validity of the relatively limited approach to the regulation of employment protection pursued in the UK over the last three decades and within the European Union more recently. It does so by comparing the UK’s manufacturing labour productivity...

Strategic human resource management has been linked to competitive advantage and in turn to organizational performance. This linkage has been viewed from a universal, a contextual or a configurational perspective. Adopting the latter perspective, the authors of the present study investigate the...

This paper uses insights and data gained from 15 years of involvement in a research network studying HRM developments in Europe to explore the notion of 'European HRM' and the meanings of convergence and divergence in HRM Using data from the last decade of the Cranet research, the paper puts...