International and Comparative Employment Relations: Global Crises and Institutional Responses

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Greg J. Bamber is a British-Australian academic researcher and writer. He is Professor Department of Management and Director International Consortium for Research in Employment & Work Centre for Global Business Monash Business School Monash University Melbourne Australia. He was educated at University (U) of Manchester London School of Economics and Heriot-Watt U Edinburgh.  In his early career he worked on research projects based at Imperial College London; Oxford; and Warwick at the UK Governments former Commission on Industrial Relations and as an arbitrator with the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service. He was an academic at the Durham U UK and subsequently an academic in Australia at Queensland U; Queensland U of Technology (Director Australian Research Council (ARC) Key Centre in Strategic Management); Griffith U (Dean/Director Graduate School of Management). The book International & Comparative Employment Relations edited by him and colleagues that was first published in 1987 is seen as the standard work which is used around the world. SAGE will publish the 7th edition in 2021. He has more than 200 other publications in leading journals and books such as Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees. He has helped to lead many research projects funded by the ARC and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. International agencies (e.g. International Labour Organization) governments and enterprises have commissioned him to conduct research projects or to be an advisor on work organisation HR or industrial relations. He has conducted research in many sectors including aviation agriculture building chemicals education electronics engineering finance health hotels infrastructure mining the public sector railways restaurants retailing tourism telecommunications manufacturing and unions as well as a range of enterprises in Australia internationally. He is President the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association and has served earlier as President of Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management Industrial Relations Society of Victoria (Australia) and the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. He is Co-Chair: International Section US Labor & Employment Relations Association (LERA). He is a Fellow of ANZAM LERA Academy of Social Sciences UK; Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Australian Human Resources Institute; British Academy of Management; Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development UK; Chartered Management Institute UK. He has served also as a Director on several boards in the fields of education healthcare and sport as well as on more than 20 editorial boards for international journals. He has given presentations at many other universities and conferences in many countries including in Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Denmark Finland France Germany Iceland India Indonesia Italy Ireland Japan Mauritius Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland Russia Spain South Africa South Korea Sweden Thailand UK USA. He is a regular commentator in the electronic and printed mass media in Australia and internationally. For more see The Conversation Linkedin Orcid Twitter Whos Who in Australia YouTube or ask:gregbamber@gmail.com Fang Lee Cooke is Professor of HRM and Asia Studies Monash Business School Monash University Melbourne Australia. Her research interests are in the area of strategic HRM knowledge management and innovation outsourcing international HRM diversity and inclusion management employment relations migrant studies HRM in the healthcare sector digitalisation and implications for employment and HRM; and low carbon growth and future of work. Fang Lee Cookes recent research projects examine some of these tensions challenges and implications for various key stakeholders such as the state employers associations unions workers and labour NGOs. Virginia Doellgast is Associate Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Cornell Universitys School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR School). Her research focuses on the political economy of work and employment; particularly the impact of labour unions and labour market institutions on economic inequality job quality and precarity. Her publications include Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy (Cornell University Press) and Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour unions precarious work and the politics of institutional change in Europe (Oxford University Press).