List ofContributors
..............................................................................................Mathew R. Allenis a doctoral candidate in human resource management at Cornell
University where his research is concerned with the relationship between HR
practices and firm performance among small businesses.
Stephen Bachis Reader in Employment Relations and Management at King’s
College, University of London. His research interests include public sector restruc-
turing and public sector unionism and his publications include Employment
Relations and the Health Service: The Management of Reforms(Routledge).
Rosemary Battis Professor of Women and Work at the New York State School of
Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. Her research ranges across
high-performance work systems, unions, international and comparative workplace
studies, technology, and work and family issues, and her publications includeThe
New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the U.S. (ILR Press,
Cornell) with Eileen Appelbaum.
Paul Boselieis an Assistant Professor in Human Resources Studies in the Faculty
of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University. His research traverses
human resource management, institutionalism, strategic management, and industrial
relations.
Peter Boxallis Professor in Human Resource Management at the University of
Auckland where he has served as Head of the Department of Management and
Employment Relations and as an Associate Dean. His research is concerned with
the links between HRM and strategic management and with the changing nature of
work and employment systems and he is the co-author ofStrategy and Human
Resource Management(Palgrave Macmillan) with John Purcell.
Bill Cookeis a Visiting Professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations
at Michigan State University. His research concerns multinational companies and
foreign and global human resource/collective bargaining strategies, the integration
of technology and HRM strategies, work team systems, and union–management
cooperation, and he is editor ofMultinational Companies and Global Human
Resource Strategies(Greenwood Publishing).
John Corderyis Professor of Organizational and Labour Studies in the School of
Economics and Commerce at the University of Western Australia where he has