Australia stands at the crossroads in industrial relations. There is a need for a policy debate on new structures rather than recycle the arguments of individualism versus collectivism. There may well be more productivity to unlock from the Australian economic system and the workforce but the...

This article examines one of the most important experiments in workplace democracy in Australia, a worker buyout programme in the industrial heartland of Greater Western Sydney, which was initiated by the New South Wales Government in the economic downturn of the 1980s recession. Here a...

The current paper is a comparative analysis of employee participation in organisational governance in Italy and Australia. Cultural values determine the expression of institutional configurations, and to this end, we have adopted Hall and Soskice's Varieties of Capitalism and the Theory of the...