** Apologies for cross-posting**
Dear colleagues,
May I bring your attention to a forthcoming interdisciplinary special issue of the European Management Journal on National Context in Work-life Research, edited by Monique Valcour, Laura Den Dulk, Ellen Ernst Kossek and myself.
Work-life policies, practices and outcomes for individuals, businesses, and society are highly sensitive to national context, and the recent growth in cross-national studies is very promising. However, relatively few studies actually integrate cultural assumptions and institutional contexts in their design.
This special issue strives to conceptualize national context and to provide new ways of capturing how variation in cross-national contexts at the individual, organizational and national levels.
The introductory article is freely available until the 30th September 2013 at:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026323731300073X
Theorizing national context to develop comparative work-life research: A review and research agenda
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Monique Valcour, Laura Den Dulk, Ellen Ernst Kossek
In this article, we present a review of cross-national studies, based on cultural (e.g. Trompenaars & Hampden-Turner, Hofstede and GLOBE) and institutional frameworks (e.g. Esping-Andersen, isomorphism and comparative institutionalism). We outline a research agenda to extend each of these approaches and bridge them. We also discuss the findings and contributions of the papers selected for this special issue, which are listed below:
Work-life experiences in rapidly changing national contexts: Structural misalignment, comparisons and choice overload as explanatory mechanisms
Špela Trefalt, Mateja Drnovšek, Anja Svetina-Nabergoj, Renata Valentina Adlešič
Non-standard work arrangements and national context
George I. Kassinis, Eleni T. Stavrou
National context in work-life research: A multi-level cross-national analysis of the adoption of workplace work-life arrangements in Europe
Laura den Dulk, Sandra Groeneveld, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Monique Valcour
Collective bargaining and public policy: Pathways to work-family policy adoption in Australia and the United States
Peter Berg, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Marian Baird, Richard N. Block
Exploring the relationship between culture and family-friendly programs (FFPs) in the Republic of Korea
Ji Sung Kim, Sue R. Faerman
Predicting organizational responsiveness to poverty: Exploratory model and application to Brazil and the United States
Sharon Lobel
Please do not hesitate to contact us with questions and feedback!
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre