A century has passed since the first call for a British national minimum wage (NMW). The
NMW was finally introduced in 1999. It has raised the real and relative pay of low wage …

This paper addresses two related issues: the effect of the 'regulatory shock'of the National
Minimum Wage on small firms and the consequent effects on the commonly observed …

Purpose–This article seeks to examine the challenges and prospects of human resource
management (HRM) in a developing‐country context. It focuses on contextual factors and …

Uniquely combining employment relations and the hospitality and tourism fields, this book
draws on recently published sources to give readers a comprehensive and internationally …

The introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) had potentially significant
implications for small firms. Orthodox economic theory predicts adverse consequences …

Pay determination in small firms is widely expected to follow the dictates of the market.
Research on 81 firms in three competitive sectors finds, instead, loosely defined and …

Business rhetoric and conventional theory expect that employment regulations will have
negative effects on small firms. Prior research has shown that effects are quite rare, but has …

There have been fundamental changes in renumeration practices in the UK over the last
quarter century, with a substantial decline in collective bargaining as the major method of …

Purpose–This paper seeks to examine employee reactions to human resource management
(HRM) and performance. It placed employees on a centre stage in analysing HRM to …

Ethnic minority business activity has often been presented as a vehicle for 'upward
mobility'for owners and workers alike. Much attention has focused upon the owners …