Edited by Jordi Gual, Deputy Director General, Head of Research, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona - ‘la Caixa’, Spain and Joan E. Ricart, Professor of General Management, Chairman, General Management Department and Director of the Ph.D. Program, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain

'. . . many of the contributions provide important insights into key questions surrounding the possible convergence of practices and the implications for this within and between firms. . . this volume is likely to be of considerable interest not only to students of HRM, but all concerned with the consequences of a global trend towards diminished security of tenure.'

• Contents: Preface by Carlos Cavallé 1. Introduction: Strategy, Organization and the Changing Nature of Work 2. Employment Contracts, New Organizational Forms and Competitive Advantage for Continuous Innovation 3. Strategic Human Resource Management and the New Employment Relationships: A Research Review and Agenda 4. Employment Security, Employability and Sustainable Competitive Advantage 5. The New Deal with Employees and its Implications for Business Strategy 6. Business Strategy and Employment Systems in Spain: An Empirical Analysis 7. The Adoption of Innovative Forms of Organizing in Europe and Japan in the 1990s 8. Impacts on Employment of New Forms of Organizing: An Evaluation from a Knowledge Requirement Perspective 9. The New Employment Relationships: The Dilemmas of a Post-Downsized, Socially Excluded, and Low Trust Future Index

Edited by Jordi Gual, Deputy Director General, Head of Research, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona - ‘la Caixa’, Spain and Joan E. Ricart, Professor of General Management, Chairman, General Management Department and Director of the Ph.D. Program, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain

'. . . many of the contributions provide important insights into key questions surrounding the possible convergence of practices and the implications for this within and between firms. . . this volume is likely to be of considerable interest not only to students of HRM, but all concerned with the consequences of a global trend towards diminished security of tenure.'

• Contents: Preface by Carlos Cavallé 1. Introduction: Strategy, Organization and the Changing Nature of Work 2. Employment Contracts, New Organizational Forms and Competitive Advantage for Continuous Innovation 3. Strategic Human Resource Management and the New Employment Relationships: A Research Review and Agenda 4. Employment Security, Employability and Sustainable Competitive Advantage 5. The New Deal with Employees and its Implications for Business Strategy 6. Business Strategy and Employment Systems in Spain: An Empirical Analysis 7. The Adoption of Innovative Forms of Organizing in Europe and Japan in the 1990s 8. Impacts on Employment of New Forms of Organizing: An Evaluation from a Knowledge Requirement Perspective 9. The New Employment Relationships: The Dilemmas of a Post-Downsized, Socially Excluded, and Low Trust Future Index

Edited by Jordi Gual, Deputy Director General, Head of Research, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona - ‘la Caixa’, Spain and Joan E. Ricart, Professor of General Management, Chairman, General Management Department and Director of the Ph.D. Program, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain

'. . . many of the contributions provide important insights into key questions surrounding the possible convergence of practices and the implications for this within and between firms. . . this volume is likely to be of considerable interest not only to students of HRM, but all concerned with the consequences of a global trend towards diminished security of tenure.'

• Contents: Preface by Carlos Cavallé 1. Introduction: Strategy, Organization and the Changing Nature of Work 2. Employment Contracts, New Organizational Forms and Competitive Advantage for Continuous Innovation 3. Strategic Human Resource Management and the New Employment Relationships: A Research Review and Agenda 4. Employment Security, Employability and Sustainable Competitive Advantage 5. The New Deal with Employees and its Implications for Business Strategy 6. Business Strategy and Employment Systems in Spain: An Empirical Analysis 7. The Adoption of Innovative Forms of Organizing in Europe and Japan in the 1990s 8. Impacts on Employment of New Forms of Organizing: An Evaluation from a Knowledge Requirement Perspective 9. The New Employment Relationships: The Dilemmas of a Post-Downsized, Socially Excluded, and Low Trust Future Index