Adrian Wilkinson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University, Australia. Prior to his 2006 appointment, Adrian was Professor of Human Resource Management at Loughborough University. Adrian has also worked at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He holds Visiting Professorships at Loughborough University, Sheffield University, and the University of Durham, and is an Academic Fellow at the Centre for International Human Resource Management at the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge. He has authored/co-authored /edited twenty books and over one hundred and forty articles in academic journals.Geoffrey Wood is Professor of International Business, University of Warwick Previously, he was Professor and Director of Research at Middlesex University Business School and before that, taught at Rhodes University, South Africa and Coventry University, Coventry, UK. He currently is Overseas Research Associate of the University of the Witwatersrand. He has authored/co-authored/edited twelve books, and over one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Work and Occupations, Work Employment and Society, Organization Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Relations, Economy and Society, Human Resource Management (US)Richard Deeg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Temple University. He received his PhD from MIT and has been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. He has written extensively on financial market regulation, institutional theory, and varieties of capitalism. His publications include Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy (University of Michigan, 1999) and dozens of articles on German and European political economy in various journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Economy & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Small Business Economics, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, and World Politics.

an impressive handbook of collected works on employment relations ... These accomplished researchers in the field of comparative employment systems have assembled an impressive cast of contributors on various aspects of this subject. ... this handbook will remain a valuable reference work for many years to come.

• SECTION I: DEFINING THE FIELD ; SECTION II: INSTITUTIONS AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTS, NEW INSIGHTS ; SECTION III: COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE ; SECTION IV: SUBSTANTIVE THEMES ; SECTION V: REFLECTIONS

Adrian Wilkinson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University, Australia. Prior to his 2006 appointment, Adrian was Professor of Human Resource Management at Loughborough University. Adrian has also worked at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He holds Visiting Professorships at Loughborough University, Sheffield University, and the University of Durham, and is an Academic Fellow at the Centre for International Human Resource Management at the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge. He has authored/co-authored /edited twenty books and over one hundred and forty articles in academic journals.Geoffrey Wood is Professor of International Business, University of Warwick Previously, he was Professor and Director of Research at Middlesex University Business School and before that, taught at Rhodes University, South Africa and Coventry University, Coventry, UK. He currently is Overseas Research Associate of the University of the Witwatersrand. He has authored/co-authored/edited twelve books, and over one hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Work and Occupations, Work Employment and Society, Organization Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Relations, Economy and Society, Human Resource Management (US)Richard Deeg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Temple University. He received his PhD from MIT and has been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. He has written extensively on financial market regulation, institutional theory, and varieties of capitalism. His publications include Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy (University of Michigan, 1999) and dozens of articles on German and European political economy in various journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Economy & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Small Business Economics, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, and World Politics.

an impressive handbook of collected works on employment relations ... These accomplished researchers in the field of comparative employment systems have assembled an impressive cast of contributors on various aspects of this subject. ... this handbook will remain a valuable reference work for many years to come.

• SECTION I: DEFINING THE FIELD ; SECTION II: INSTITUTIONS AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTS, NEW INSIGHTS ; SECTION III: COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE ; SECTION IV: SUBSTANTIVE THEMES ; SECTION V: REFLECTIONS