Employee Relations: Volume 33 Issue 4

Introducing governance and employment relations in Eastern and Central Europe

Zsolt Bedo, Mehmet Demirbag, Geoffrey Wood

This article seeks to explore some of the principal issues and debates on the relationship between institutions, firm level governance and employment relations outcomes in Eastern…

Wild capitalism, privatisation and employment relations in Serbia

Martin Upchurch, Darko Marinković

This paper aims to examine the phenomenom of wild capitalism under post Communist transformation. Many commentators on post Communist transformation focus their attention on…

Varieties of capitalism, governance, and high‐tech export performance: A fuzzy‐set analysis of the new EU member states

Matthew M.C. Allen, Maria L. Aldred

This paper aims to assess the extent to which convergence in institutional regimes is likely to occur, by examining all ten new EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe in…

Nordic subsidiaries in the Baltic States: is model transfer possible?

Markku Sippola

This research seeks to ask to what extent model transfer in employee relations (in terms of employee representation, participation and workplace bargaining) occurs between Nordic…

Changing workplace relations in foreign investment firms in Poland

Jane Hardy, Wleslawa Kozek

The article aims to consider the relationship between foreign investors and trade unions in forging new labour relations and workplace institutions in Polish firms. The research…

Diversity within capitalism: the Russian labour market model

Rostislav Kapelyushnikov, Andrei Kuznetsov, Olga Kuznetsova

The purpose of this paper is to investigate labour market practices in a transition economy in relation to broader institutional configurations.

Beyond a “varieties of capitalism” approach in Central and Eastern Europe: Some lessons from Ukraine

Colin C. Williams, Sara Nadin, Peter Rodgers

Since the turn of the millennium, a small corpus of post‐structuralist thought has emerged that challenges the dominant belief that capitalism is now hegemonic and that all…

Comparative international human resource management (CIHRM) in the light of the Cranet Regional Research Survey in Transitional Economies

Jozsef Poor, Zsuzsa Karoliny, Ruth Alas, Elizabeta Kirilova Vatchkova

The primary aim of the paper is to draw attention to the similarities in the historical background and in the transitional period of the post‐socialist CEE (Central and East…

Independence of board of directors, employee relation and harmonisation of corporate governance: Empirical evidence from Russian listed companies

Dilek Demirbas, Andrey Yukhanaev

The main aim of this paper is to examine the role of the board of directors in Russia with specific attention to their independence, employee relations and ability of successful…