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Economic Development Strategies and Macro- and Micro-level Human Resource Policies: The Case of India’s “Outsourcing” Industry (with Aruna Ranganathan), Articles & Chapters (2008)
This detailed case study of India's "outsourcing" industry illustrates the challenges in linking macro and...
Health Security for the Rural Poor? A Case Study of a Health Insurance Scheme for Rural Farmers and Peasants in India (with Mingwei Liu), Articles & Chapters (2007)
This is a case study of an important innovation in providing healthcare for the rural...
Adjusting to Globalization Through Skills Development Strategies, Articles & Chapters (2007)
[Excerpt] The aim of this chapter is to describe and analyze the efforts at skills...
ILR Impact Brief - Sustainable Workforce Development: The Paths of Singapore and India, ILR Impact Briefs (2006)
Globalization compels developing economies to address workforce skill levels. Reliance on a low-skill, low-wage competitive...
International Labor Standards, Soft Regulation, and National Government Roles (with Anil Verma), Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] In this article, we briefly describe the different approaches to the regulation of international...
Review of Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy (with Ariel Avgar), Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] Over the past three decades the nature of work in many American organizations has...
Social Dialogue for Decent Work, Articles & Chapters (2006)
[Excerpt] This paper aims to develop usable indicators of the concept of social dialogue, as...
International HRM: National Business Systems, Organizational Politics and the International Division of Labour in MNCs (with Tony Edwards), Articles & Chapters (2005)
In this paper we address a key issue that dominates internal ional HRM research, namely...
Trade Union Growth and Decline in Asia (with Subesh Das, Hyunji Kwon, and Soonwon Kwon), Articles & Chapters (2002)
We examine trends in union density and union influence in several Asian countries. While we...
Change and Transformation in Asian Industrial Relations (with Christopher L. Erickson), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2002)
Authors argue that industrial relations systems change due to shifts in the constraints facing those...
Logics of Action, Globalization, and Employment Relations Change in China, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines (with Stephen Frenkel), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2002)
A logic of action framework is developed in order to conceptualize and understand the impact...
Recent Developments in Employment Relations in the Philippines (with Christopher L. Erickson, Sarosh Kuruvilla, Rene E. Ofreneo, and Maria Asuncion Ortiz), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2001)
We seek to describe recent developments in employment relations in the Philippines, placing these developments...
An Assessment of the Singapore Skills Development System: Does It Constitute a Viable Model for Other Developing Nations? (with Christopher L. Erickson and Alvin Hwang), Articles & Chapters (2001)
In this paper, we briefly describe the institutional background to Singapore’s successful national skills development...
Changes in Employment Security in Asia (with Adam Lee), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2001)
Much attention has been focused on the decline of traditional employment structures in the advanced...
How Do Nations Develop Skills? Lessons from the Skill Development Experiences of Singapore (with Rodney Chua), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (2000)
This paper contributes to the partial resolution of the debate regarding the role of governments...
Industrial Relations System Transformation (with Christopher L. Erickson), Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1998)
This paper analyzes the concept of “transformation” that many allege has occurred recently in a...
Linkages Between Industrialization Strategies and Industrial Relations/Human Resource Policies: Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India, Faculty Publications - Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History (1996)
The case studies of Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India presented in this paper support...
Industrialization Strategy and Industrial Relations Policy in Malaysia, Articles & Chapters (1995)
[Excerpt] In this chapter, a different view is taken of the relationship between industrialization strategies...
National Industrialization Strategies and Firm Level IR/HR Practices: Case Studies in Malaysia and Philippines, CAHRS Working Paper Series (1994)
[Excerpt] Any economy is characterized by several different patterns of industrial relations (IR)and human resource...