OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Industrial Relations is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Work–life balance and gig work: ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work–life balance agenda?	42
Workplace gender equality in the post-pandemic era: Where to next?	35
Agents of transition or defenders of the status quo? Trade union strategies in green transitions	30
‘We’re in the coal business’: Maintaining fossil fuel hegemony in the face of climate change	25
Climate change and industrial relations: Reflections on an emerging field	20
Digital unionism as a renewal strategy? Social media use by trade union confederations	19
Collective regulation and the future of work in the digital economy: Insights from comparative employment relations	16
Modern slavery in global value chains: A global factory and governance perspective	15
COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions	14
Slowing the treadmill for a good life for All? German trade union narratives and social-ecological transformation	14
Decent gig work in Sub Sahara Africa?	13
Platform adaptation to regulation: The case of domestic cleaning in Europe	13
Union framing of gender equality and the elusive potential of equality bargaining in a difficult climate	13
Safeguarding women at work? Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand on effectively implementing domestic violence policies	12
Gender equality and paid parental leave in Australia: A decade of giant leaps or baby steps?	11
Using unitarist, pluralist, and radical frames to map the cross-section distribution of employment relations across workplaces: A four-country empirical investigation of patterns and determinants	11
‘Not my task’: Role perceptions in a green transition among shop stewards in the Norwegian petroleum industry	11
Modern slavery and the employment relationship: Exploring the continuum of exploitation	11
Outsourcing the enforcement of modern slavery: Overcoming the limitations of a market-based disclosure model	10
Peer-to-peer online voice as emergent collective action	10
Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2020	10
The role of the state in influencing work conditions in China's internet industry: Policy, evidence, and implications for industrial relations	10
COVID-normal workplaces: Should working from home be a ‘collective flexibility’?	9
Pluralisms? Social philosophy, social science and public policy in employment relations and human resource management	9
Regulating for gender-equitable decent work in social and community services: Bringing the state back in	9

Reframing the narrative: Renewing power resources and capabilities in union campaigns for public education	8
Experiences of precariousness and exploitation of Romanian transnational live-in care workers in Austria	8
The importance of competition and consumer law in regulating gig work and beyond	7
Australian industrial relations in 2020: COVID-19, crisis and opportunity	7
Old frames and new lenses: Frames of reference revisited	7
Bricolage in labor organizing practices: Spanish and Italian migrant activists in Berlin	7
Will Business and Human Rights regulation help Rajasthan's bonded labourers who mine sandstone?	6
Through the back-door: How Australia and Canada use working holiday programs to fulfill demands for migrant work via cultural exchange	6
Bargaining for gender equality in Aotearoa New Zealand: Flexible work arrangements in collective agreements, 2007–2019	5
Working towards a green job?: Autoworkers, climate change and the role of collective identity in union renewal	5
The Australian labour market in 2020	5
Nonstandard Employment and Indigenous Earnings Inequality in Canada	5
Towards a relational environmental labour studies	5
Industrial legislation in Australia, 2020	4
After Rana Plaza: Governing Exploitative Workplace Labour Regimes in Bangladeshi Garment Export Factories	4
Revisiting voluntarism: Private voluntary regulation by Employer Forums in the United Kingdom	4
Job quality and automation: Do more automatable occupations have less job satisfaction and health?	4
Is multidimensional precarious employment higher for women?	4
A strike in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: The 2020 health workers’ dispute in Hong Kong	4
Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2020	4