BJIR

Published in conjunction with the London School of Economics & Political Science

Edited by:
Carola Frege

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: BJIR 5-Year Impact Factor 2008: 1.552
Impact Factor: 0.903

BJIR (British Journal of Industrial Relations) is an influential and authoritative journal which is essential reading for all academics and practitioners interested in work and employment relations. It is the highest ranked European journal in the Industrial Relations & Labour category of the Social Sciences Citation Index.

BJIR aims to present the latest research on developments on employment and work from across the globe that appeal to an international readership. Contributions are drawn from all of the main social science disciplines, deal with a broad range of employment topics and express a range of viewpoints.

TopNews and Announcements

Watch the 2nd BJIR Annual Lecture
"Emotional Prosperity: Biomarkers, Economic Markers, and the Stiglitz Commission on Human Progress"
Speaker: Andrew Oswald, University of Warwick and member of the Stiglitz Commission on Human Progress
Held on the 17th November 2009
Watch the videocast of the lecture

Call for Papers
Ideas at Work: 25th Annual Employment Research Unit Conference, Cardiff Business School
Read the conference call for papers

Call for Papers
BJIR Conference and Special Issue on Outsourcing/Offshoring of Service Work
Submission deadline: 15 May 2010
Guest edited by Sarosh Kuruvilla, Christopher Erickson, Virginia Doellgast

BJIR Best Paper Prize 2008 - Available free online
Leeway for the Loyal: A Model of Employee Discretion
Francis Green (Volume 46 Issue 1)

It comes as no surprise that this paper has been chosen by Advisory Board members as the best paper in 2008. It sheds new light on a topic of considerable interest to the Journal's readers, namely the determinants of task discretion. At its heart is a parsimonious model which establishes the importance of employee loyalty in determining the amount of task discretion employees experience given employer concerns about workers' preparedness to shirk. The theory is neatly elaborated and tested with linked employer-employee data in a way which is both compelling and fun to read.

Special issue on 100 Years of Minimum Wage Regulation
Edited by Simon Deakin and Francis Green
Read the Guest editors introduction

Online content for BJIR is now available back to volume 1, 1963
All back issues of BJIR are now available online. Click here to browse the table of contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access the full text of these issues please visit our Librarian Site.

Listen or read the 1st BJIR annual public lecture
Held on the 20th November 2008, the 1st BJIR lecture was given by Kathleen Thelen, Payson S. Wild Professor in Political science, Northwestern University on 'Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies'

Download and listen to the podcast of the lecture
View the supporting overhead slides
Read the lecture free online (published in 47:3 of BJIR)

The lecture looks at development and change in key political-economic institutions in the advanced industrial countries, providing a framework for understanding change through which institutions can be gradually but radically reconfigured over time.

BJIR is ranked 'A*' in the Business and Management category of the Australia Business Deans Council journal rankings

Articles published online ahead of print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our EarlyView feature before the print edition of this journal is published. Browse BJIR EarlyView articles.

TopHighlights

Featured free articles
International Differences in Wage Inequality: A New Glance with European Matched Employer-Employee Data
Hipólito Simón

Read the latest Book Review Essay from Colin Crouch on Trade Unions and States

BJIR Best Paper Award 2007: Collective Bargaining as Industrial Democracy: Hugh Clegg and the Political Foundations of British Industrial Relations Pluralism
Peter Ackers

Ackers' paper provides a highly sophisticated, well-balanced intellectual biography of Hugh Clegg and his wide-ranging influence on employment research in Britain. The strength of the paper is in trying to look at the intellectual origins of some key normative and political ideas that underwrite the British approach to industrial relations issues, in particular the emphasis on collective bargaining and union independence and ambivalence toward worker participation.

We Provoked Business Students to Unionize: Using Deception to Prove an IR Point
Daphne Taras and Piers Steel

Recent Special and Symposium issues
2009: 100 Years of Minimum Wage Regulation
Edited by Simon Deakin and Francis Green

2008: Symposium on the WERS 2004

2007: Political Economy of Migration

2006: Special Edition on New Actors in Industrial Relations
Edited by Edmund Heery , Carola Frege

TopEndorsements

'The BJIR is one of the world's preemminent journals in employment relations. It has long been at the leading edge of research in this field, generating new ideas and attracting contributions from leading international scholars. It is an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners and policy makers who wish to understand current and emerging issues in the world of work and employment relations.'
Russell Lansbury, University of Sydney and President, International Industrial Relations Association

'Embracing a wide definition of its field and applying consistently rigorous acceptance criteria, the BJIR remains a 'must see' journal for employment relations academics and students.'
Professor Linda Dickens, Warwick Business School