Books reviewed in this article: Ian Watson, John Buchanan, Iain Campbell and Chris Briggs (eds), Fragmented Futures: New Challenges in Working Life Barbara Pocock (ed.), The Work/Life Collision: What Work is Doing to Australians and What to Do About It Siobhan Austen (ed.), Culture and the...

Temporary work continues to stimulate research and debate in many developed countries. This research provides contemporary data on temporary work agency employment in the Australian hotel industry. Findings reveal that an absence of regulation governing the temporary work agency industry in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine relationships between work organisation, bullying and intention to leave (ITL) in the Australian hospitality industry, using pressure, disorganisation and regulatory failure (PDR) to measure work organisation. Design/methodology/approach...

The increase in influential, non-American companies in the hotel industry is discussed. The paper considers whether this was caused a decline of American hegemony of the international hotel industry. Recent trends that have led to a belief in declining American influence are discussed. A case...

Companies increasingly seek solutions to the corporate/local dichotomies perceived to be a feature of more traditional approaches to managing across national boundaries. At the human resource level, the rhetoric of transnationalism emphasizes integration being achieved through 'soft' mechanisms,...