All Outputs (3)

Labour Flexibility: securing management's right to manage badly? (2003)
Book Chapter
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2003). Labour Flexibility: securing management's right to manage badly?. In B. Burchell, S. Deakin, J. Rubery, & J. Michie (Eds.), Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance. London: Routledge. https://doi.org

Frank Wilkinson’s classic piece on ‘Productive Systems’ opens with a warning against the ‘increasingly dogmatic reassertion by a growing proportion of economists of the beneficial effects of the invisible hand of market forces’. These reassertions, W... Read More about Labour Flexibility: securing management's right to manage badly?.

Markets, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation (2003)
Book Chapter
Kitson, M., Michie, J., & Sheehan-Quinn, M. (2003). Markets, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation. In D. Coffey, & C. Thornley (Eds.), Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance: Issues and Perspectives. London: Routledge

The paper analyses the relationship between, on the one hand, markets, competition and cooperation, and on the other hand, firms' innovative behaviour. Drawing on ESRC Centre for Business Research survey results, the paper uses descriptive statistics... Read More about Markets, Competition, Cooperation and Innovation.

Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation (2003)
Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2003). Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27(1), 123-143. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/27.1.123

Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of UK firms, this paper investigates the relationships between firms' use of, on the one hand, various flexible work practices, human... Read More about Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation.