JACQUES BÉLANGER Professor, Département des relations industrielles, Université Laval, Canada DAVID G. COLLINGS Member of Human Resource Management Research Group, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland, and Visiting Research Fellow, Strathclyde International Business Unit, University of Strathclyde, UK PAUL EDWARDS Professor of Industrial Relations, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK TONY ELGER Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Comparative Labour Studies, University of Warwick, UK PATRICK GUNNIGLE Professor of Business Studies and Director of the Employment Relations Research Unit, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland RICHARD HYMAN Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, UK CHRISTEL LANE Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SPS), University of Cambridge, UK GUGLIELMO MEARDI Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick, UK GLENN MORGAN Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK MICHAEL J. MORLEY Assistant Dean, Research and Senior Lecturer, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland VALERIA PULIGNANO Professor of the Sociology of Labour, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium SIGRID QUACK Research Fellow, Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Berlin, Germany JOCELYN PROBERT Lecturer in International Management and Organization, Birmingham Business School, University ofBirmingham, UK CHRIS SMITH Professor of Organization Studies, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK SULLY TAYLOR Professor of International Management and Human Resource Management, and Director of the Master of International Management, Portland State University, USA ANDRAS TÓTH Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary