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Human resource management and the institutional perspective [electronic resource] / edited by Geoffrey Wood, Chris Brewster and Michael Brookes.

Contributor(s): Wood, Geoffrey | Brewster, Chris | Brookes, MichaelMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge global human resource management seriesPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2014Description: xv, 226 p. : illISBN: 9781315796079 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Personnel management | Organizational sociologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to view Also available in print edition.

Contents:

1. Institutions and firm level HRM practice / Geoffrey Wood, Chris Brewster and Michael Brookes -- 2. Researching comparative institutional contexts / Michael Brookes ... [et al.] -- 3. Understanding contextual differences in employee resourcing / Geoffrey Wood ... [et al.] -- 4. Variations in financial participation in comparative context / Michael Brookes, Geoffrey Wood and Chris Brewster -- 5. Is there convergence towards individual voice in Europe? / Richard Croucher ... [et al.] -- 6. Corporate governance systems and investments in human capital / Marc Goergen ... [et al.] -- 7. Context and working time : diversity in practice / Suzanne Richbell ... [et al.] -- 8. Diversity between and within varieties of capitalism / Chris Brewster ... [et al.] -- 9. Institutions, labour management practices and firm performance in Europe / Richard Croucher and Marian Rizov -- 10. What role do MNCs play in different market economics? / Chris Brewster, Geoffrey Wood and Michael Brookes -- 11. How much does country matter? A cross-national comparison of HRM outsourcing decisions / Michael Mol ... [et al.].

Summary: Combining the literature on comparative capitalism with that on comparative HRM, Human Resource Management and the Institutional Perspective explores the overlapping and distinct elements in work and employment relations both within and across country lines. The authors focus on intra-firm relations, internal diversity within varieties of capitalsm, and the uneven and experimental nature of systemic change, all the while employing an impressive level of theoretical rigor and empirical evidence. For those interested in contemporary developments in institutional theory, the relationship between regulation and practice, and in innovation and continuity in HRM, this book is a valuable resource. In a single volume, this text unites soundly based, theoretically strong and empirically new chapters that bring advances in institutional theory to bear on the subject of international and comparative Human Resource Management-- Provided by publisher.Summary: Combining the literature on comparative capitalism with that on comparative HRM, Human Resource Management and the Institutional Perspective explores the overlapping and distinct elements in work and employment relations both within and across country lines. The authors focus on intra-firm relations, internal diversity within varieties of capitalism, and the uneven and experimental nature of systemic change, all the while employing an impressive level of theoretical rigor and empirical evidence. For those interested in contemporary developments in institutional theory, the relationship between regulation and practice, and innovation and continuity in HRM, this book is a valuable resource. In a single volume, this text unites soundly based, theoretically strong and empirically new chapters that bring advances in institutional theory to bear on the subject of international and comparative Human Resource Management-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Combining the literature on comparative capitalism with that on comparative HRM, Human Resource Management and the Institutional Perspective explores the overlapping and distinct elements in work and employment relations both within and across country lines. The authors focus on intra-firm relations, internal diversity within varieties of capitalsm, and the uneven and experimental nature of systemic change, all the while employing an impressive level of theoretical rigor and empirical evidence. For those interested in contemporary developments in institutional theory, the relationship between regulation and practice, and in innovation and continuity in HRM, this book is a valuable resource. In a single volume, this text unites soundly based, theoretically strong and empirically new chapters that bring advances in institutional theory to bear on the subject of international and comparative Human Resource Management-- Provided by publisher.

Combining the literature on comparative capitalism with that on comparative HRM, Human Resource Management and the Institutional Perspective explores the overlapping and distinct elements in work and employment relations both within and across country lines. The authors focus on intra-firm relations, internal diversity within varieties of capitalism, and the uneven and experimental nature of systemic change, all the while employing an impressive level of theoretical rigor and empirical evidence. For those interested in contemporary developments in institutional theory, the relationship between regulation and practice, and innovation and continuity in HRM, this book is a valuable resource. In a single volume, this text unites soundly based, theoretically strong and empirically new chapters that bring advances in institutional theory to bear on the subject of international and comparative Human Resource Management-- Provided by publisher.

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