About the Contributors

Geoffrey Wood is Professor of International Business, University of Warwick. Previously, he was Professor and Director of Research at Middlesex University Business School and before that, taught at Rhodes University, South Africa (where he attained the rank of Associate Professor) and Coventry University, Coventry, UK (where he attained the rank of Reader). He has also held visiting fellowships at Cranfield University, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), and the American University in Cairo, Cornell University, and Rhodes University. He currently is Overseas Research Associate of the University of the Witwatersrand. Geoffrey Wood has served as Commissioned Researcher for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He has authored/co-authored/edited 12 books and over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals (including journals such as Work and Occupations, Work, Employment and Society, Organization Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Relations, Economy and Society, Human Resource Management (US)). He has had numerous research grants including from funding councils, the European Union, government departments (e.g. US Department of Labor), charities (e.g. Nuffield Foundation) and the labour movement (e.g. the ITF). He was the winner of the ECGI 2012 prize (with Marc Goergen and Noel O’Sullivan) for the best working paper in finance. Geoff’s research interests centre on the relationship between national institutional setting, corporate governance, firm finance, and firm-level work and employment relations. While much of the contemporary comparative institutional literature draws distinctions between national contexts based on stylized ideal types, macroeconomic trends, and/or limited panels of case studies, his work brings to bear systematic comparative firm level evidence.

Richard Deeg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. from MIT and has been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. He has written extensively on financial market regulation, institutional theory, and varieties of capitalism. His publications include Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy (University of Michigan, 1999) and dozens of articles on German and European political economy in various journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Economy and Society, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Small Business Economics, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, and World Politics. His current research focuses on causes and mechanisms of institutional change in financial systems.

Matthew M. C. Allen Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies, University of Manchester

Sabina Avdagic Research Fellow University of Sussex

Lucio Baccaro Professor of Sociology, University of Geneva

Franco Barchiesi Associate Professor of African-American and African Studies, Ohio State University

Michael Barry Associate Professor, Griffith University

Robert Boyer Economist, associated at the Institute of the Americas, Vanves (France)

Chris Brewster Professor of International Human Resource Management, University of Reading

Harald Conrad Sasakawa Lecturer in Japan’s Economy and Management, University of Sheffield

Fang Lee Cooke Professor of Human Resource Management and Chinese Studies, Monash University

Colin Crouch Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick

Niall Cullinane Lecturer in Management, Queen’s University

Richard Deeg Professor of Political Science, Temple University

Jimmy Donaghey Reader in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick

Peter Fairbrother Professor of International Employment Relations, RMIT University

Michele Ford Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney

Marc Goergen Professor of Finance, Cardiff University

Paul J. Gollan Professor of Management, Macquarie University

Heidi Gottfried Associate Professor at Wayne State University

Michel Goyer Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham

Samanthi J. Gunawardana Lecturer in Gender and Development in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Bob Hancké Reader in European Political Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Marco Hauptmeier Senior Lecturer in International Human Resource Management, Cardiff University

Frank Horwitz Professor of International Human Resource Management, Cranfield University

Gregory Jackson Professor of Management, Freie Universität Berlin

Senia Kalfa Lecturer in Management, Macquarie University

Harry Katz Dean and Professor of Collective Bargaining, ILR School, Cornell University

Anja Kirsch Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin

Gilton Klerck Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University

Christel Lane Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Cambridge

Johann Maree Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town

Cathie Jo Martin Professor of Political Science, Boston University

Guglielmo Meardi Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Warwick

Lindah Mhando Professor Penn State University

Glenn Morgan Professor of International Management, Cardiff University

Martin Myant Head of Unit for European Economic, Employment and Social Policy, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels

Kristine Nergaard Research Coordinator, Fafo, Institute for Labour and Social Research

Barbara Pocock Professor of Work, Employment, and Industrial Relations, University of South Australia

Juliane Reinecke Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, University of Warwick

Nick Wailes Professor at the Australian Graduate School of Management, The University of New South Wales

Adrian Wilkinson Professor of Employment Relations, Griffith University

Geoffrey Wood Professor of International Business, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick