This paper explores, based on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, configurations of key human resource management practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany,...

This study analyses the politics of labour market reforms in Germany and Japan in the period between 1990 and 2010. Unlike conventional policy studies which tend to focus solely on legislative politics, this study assesses cases of reform and non-reform in the context of industrial relations and...