This paper contributes to the strategic human resource management literature by testing the three main approaches - the universalistic ('best practice'), contingency and configurational - against an original database. Specifically, we examine: (1) the relationship between HR and firm...

The relationship between HRM and performance was explored in 366 UK companiesusing objective and subjective performance measures and cross-sectionaland longitudinal data. Using objective measures of performance, greater use ofHRM is associated with lower labour turnover and higher profit per...

Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of UK firms, this paper investigates the relationships between firms' use of, on the one hand, various flexible work practices, human resource management techniques, and...

What is termed 'globalisation' has taken many forms over the centuries. The last time we had a 'free market' form of globalisation, such as is largely in force across the world today, was in the run up to the First World War; goods, people and capital crossed borders, as the leading industrial...