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...

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...

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 --...

We use data from the "Relations Professionnelles et Négociations d'Entreprise" survey of 2004 and the "Workplace Employment Relations Survey" of 2004 to analyse how far approaches to human resource management differ according to whether an establishment is part of a company with a stock...