Most large UK private-sector organizations are listed companies that are subject to intense pressures to enhance shareholder value. The question arises of whether this constrains the ability of UK managers to pursue genuine partnership arrangements with long-term stakeholders, including...

[enter Abstract Body]We use data from REPONSE 2004 and WERS 2004 to analyze whetherapproaches to HRM differ according to whether an establishment is part of a company with a stock exchange listing. In both countries we find that listing is positively associated with team working and...

The corporate governance environment in the UK and US is generally thought to be hostile to the emergence of cooperative employment relations of the kind exemplified by labour-management partnerships. We discuss case-study evidence from the UK which suggests that, contrary to this widespread...

Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The influence of the legal and institutional framework -- The economy and society diverge : setting up the insecurity cycle -- The state steps in : and then back out again -- More problems with capitalism : but new ideas are slow to gain traction --...