This paper empirically studies union effects on the performance of, and employment relations in, China’s private enterprises. The study finds a positive and statistically significant union effect on labor productivity, but not on profitability. It further finds that unions lead to better employee benefits and increased contract signing in employment. These findings suggest that, in the era of t...

We propose a new stochastic actor-oriented model for the co-evolution of two-mode and one-mode networks. The model posits that activities of a set of actors, represented in the two-mode network, co-evolve with exchanges and interactions between the actors, as represented in the one-mode network. The model assumes that the actors, not the activities, have agency. The empirical value of the model...

We propose a new stochastic actor-oriented model for the co-evolution of two-mode and one-mode networks. The model posits that activities of a set of actors, represented in the two-mode network, co-evolve with exchanges and interactions between the actors, as represented in the one-mode network. The model assumes that only the actors have agency. The empirical value of the model is demonstrated...

of paper for T rack 1 “Management, Work and Organisation”, 15 World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association: “The New World of Work, Organisations and Employment.” 24 – 27 August 2009, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia Human Resource Outsourcing and the HR Function: Opportunity or Threat?

Crowd employment platforms in Spain are a rather recent development. However, they have experienced remarkable growth during the economic crisis. The number of workers and clients has increased in the sectors already using crowd employment (including creative design), and the phenomenon has spread to other sectors such as housing and design, computing, book editing and translation (InfoCrowdsou...

The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly altered people’s experiences of work around the world. In doing so, crisis appeared to change public narrative on and employment, consequently highlighted continued relevance value employment relations as a field study, in terms both policy research. this paper, we reflect implications outbreak for relations. We argue that current resilience relations, remin...

This paper suggests that the Irish experience of social partnership does not fully overlap with mainstream employment relations literature on the topic. Three features in particular distinguish the Irish case. One is the importance attached to a procedural consensus that allows advances to be made on partnership at work without full agreement between employers and unions about the substantive e...

Introduction Recent recurring natural and economic crises have highlighted the need for a rethinking of socio-environmental relations. On the one hand, sustainable economic recovery requires the re-creation of a ‘durable basis of demand’ centred on re-formed employment relationships (Wilkinson et al. 2013: 1). On the other, such a reassessment of employment relations needs linking to a wider un...