Paul E. M. Ligthart

Radboud University | RU · Institute of Management Research

Although still in its early stages for the average manufacturing firm, the adoption of digital technologies has arrived in production systems. In response to these changes, firms are transforming their production systems and processes to accommodate this trend towards digitalization, constituting Industry 4.0. To make change effective, manufacturin...

In this paper, we assess the development of financial participation schemes, employee share ownership and profit-sharing in selected European countries and the degree to which they are correlated with strategic human resource management, and industrial relations, that is collective bargaining, unionization and works councils, and national context....

This chapter examines how cultural and institutional differences within Germanic Europe shape cross-national variation in the approaches of firms to strategic integration of human resource management (HRM) and developmental HRM practices. Despite some cultural and institutional similarities, a comparison of societal cultural practices and instituti...

(Dutch) Voor bedrijven in de maakindustrie is digitalisering (Smart Industry, Industry 4.0) inmiddels geen abstract punt meer op de horizon. Dit geldt voor de in het oog springende early adopters, maar ook de doorsnee maakbedrijven die centraal staan in dit onderzoek. Het onderzoek betreft een inventarisatie van de technologische digitaliseringsact...

This research focuses on the actual use of specific digitalization technologies in the various application domains in the manufacturing industry, i.e. the production process, products and services. On the basis of the application, digitalization profiles are compiled that indicate in which configurations digital technologies are used. It is assumed...

An important challenge facing firms and governments is the realization of sustainable development objectives. Sustainable technology, as an effective means to achieve sustainable development, has recently gained much interest from both society and academia. Prior research has investigated the effects of several factors on the adoption of sustainabl...

Purpose: The present paper aims to analyse up to what extend the adoption of servitization is related financial performance. As a second objective, this study proposes to study innovation performance as a moderating effect between the relation of servitization and financial performance in Spanish manufacturing companies. Design/Methodology/Approach...

Digitalisering van de productie krijgt geleidelijk voet aan de grond in de Nederlandse maakindustrie. Maar veel maakbedrijven maken nog geen of onvoldoende gebruik van slimme technologieën in het productieproces. Om mee te gaan in Industrie 4.0 zullen ze moeten veranderen. Link: https://esb.nu/esb/20039894/veel-ruimte-voor-meer-digitalisering-neder...

This study explores patterns of human resource management (HRM) practices across market economies, and between indigenous firms and foreign MNE subsidiary operations, offering a novel perspective on convergence and divergence. Applying institutional theorizing to improve our understanding of convergence/divergence as a process and an outcome, data...

This volume of Advances gathers recent insights into the determinants, developments, and outcomes of employee share ownership. It focuses on the numerous emerging themes in the literature and tests some of the relationships derived from the literature using several datasets, notably European ones. The result is a coherent set of chapters that disc...

This study investigates how nation-level cultural values (‘individualism’ and ‘collectivism’) and intra-organizational task control mechanisms influence the level of organizations’ use of formal telework practices. Employing a multi-level analysis on survey data (2009/10), including 1577 organizations within 18 nations, we found that ‘high use of f...

This paper investigated the effect of employee share ownership, mediated through psychological ownership, on organizational citizenship behavior. The analysis included the possible complementary role of High Performance Ownership systems. This paper investigated these relationships by analyzing employee survey data from a Dutch organization that ha...

Knowledge management (KM) extends the health information technology (HIT) literature by addressing its impact on creating knowledge by sharing and using the knowledge of health care professionals in hospitals. The aim of the study was to provide insight into how HIT affects nurses' explicit and tacit knowledge of their ongoing work processes and wo...

This article compares the spread of broad-based individual performance-related pay practices (PRP) in Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Western European companies. The article investigates the dominance effect of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the constraining effects of industrial relations, i.e. collective bargaining and union influenc...

This study seeks to explain the differential effects of workforce flexibility on incremental and major new product development (NPD). Drawing on the resource-based theory of the firm, human resource management research, and innovation management literature, the authors distinguish two types of workforce flexibility, functional and numerical, and hy...

The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on the debate about the congruence between the corporate discourse on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the implementation of respective policies, and the contextual influences on this. This chapter will be based on Cranet data from Nordic and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.

For both academics and practitioners, an insight into the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and performance is essential. In exploring this link, HRM scholars have arrived at a point where the universalistic approach of the performance effects of best HRM practices are criticized. In an effort to move beyond a best-practice mode...

Financial participation is a key human resource management practice, extending democracy at the workplace and, as the success of the organization becomes directly linked to employee rewards, altering the relationship between employees and the organization. In this chapter we discuss the incidence and characteristics of financial participation in ei...

See: Elaine Farndale, Chris Brewster, Paul Ligthart and Erik Poutsma (2017) The effects of market economy type and foreign MNE subsidiaries on the convergence and divergence of HRM, Journal of International Business Studies (2017) 48, 1065–1086

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an “extended conceptualization of the business case” including both organizational characteristics and institutional conditions to analyse employer involvement in extra statutory childcare and leave arrangements. Special attention is given to Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Design/metho...

The aim of this paper is to trace and explain variations in calculative and collaborative human resource management (HRM) practices between companies and across national borders. Variations and similarities are explained in terms of the convergence and divergence of HRM practices determined by national institutions, and the increasing influence of...

The debate on convergence and globalisation of national economies emphasises the role of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) with regard to the export of home-country policies in countries where they have their plants. MNCs set a process of change in motion in which local companies attempt to catch up with the more internationalised companies, partic...

Two basic questions related to fundamental aspects of human behavior have been dealt with in the domain of bargaining and contracting: do solidarity relationships have an impact on individual gain-seeking behavior, and, if so, how does solidarity in these relationships affect the individual bargaining and contracting itself? Solidarity theory (Lind...

When one introduces the normative dimension into economic transactions, one should thus not only explain when solidarity norms are advantageous, but also when solidarity norms are disadvantageous for economic transactions. Such a combined approach has been suggested by Lindenberg (1988). Lindenberg (1988) use a decision-making model in his solidari...