Abstract
As other chapters in this thematic unit illustrate, the field of employment relations touches on a number of different intellectual traditions, but arguably economics is the largest and most imperialistic discipline to influence the field; indeed, the founding father of personnel economics claims as much (Lazear, 2000). The interchange between discipline and field1 has a long history, which must be summarised here in the broadest terms, and with a bias towards the most fruitful forms of interchange. This bias leads to a sampling of the discipline in favour of economists who are interested in institutions and specifically those who would accept the proposition that there is a difference ...
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