Geoffrey Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6690-338X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath
This article explores the rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business and commerce in Alexandria, Egypt. As the existing literature alerts us, shifting forms of colonial rule made for a complex and multifaceted cosmopolitanism, in which each community secured a distinct economic space. In part, this was due to the insertion of Alexandria into the growing world economy of the nineteenth century, which allowed for both the rise of modern businesses…
Human resource management in the age of generative artificial intelligence
ChatGPT and its variants that use generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have rapidly become a focal point in academic and media discussions about their potential benefits and drawbacks across various sectors of the economy, democracy, society, and environment. It remains unclear whether these technologies result in job displacement or creation, or if they merely shift human labour by generating new, potentially trivial or practically irr…
From Fossil Fuels to Low Carbon Energy Transition
Covid-19 and digitalization
The Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds
The Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds provides a comprehensive look at the hedge fund industry from a global perspective. The chapters are organized into five main parts. After the introductory chapter in Part I, Part II begins in Chapter 2 with an analysis of the main factors that have affected the operation of hedge funds. Chapter 3 explains the concept of hedge fund flows. Chapter 4 examines hedge fund manager fees and contracts. Part III focuses…
Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds
The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions
The discussion on ‘The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions’ gives us a state-of-the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the field of political economy. It invites us to broaden our knowledge on the changing realities of different geographical regions in energy transition. In this discussion forum, Finnegan discusses emerging themes in the comparative political economy literature of climate …
A closer look at the positive crossover between supervisors and subordinates
How can we explain the crossover of positive experiences from supervisors to their subordinates? Drawing on crossover research and social learning theory (SLT), our main goal in this study is to explore mechanisms and boundary conditions to understand how positive crossover occurs from supervisors to their subordinates. We focus on the nature and foundations of positive crossover in the domains of work and home, and explore the downstream consequ…
Comparative Capitalism and the Transitional Periphery
The Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds
HRM in sub-Saharan Africa
This chapter draws from a small but growing body of human resource management (HRM) research in Africa. Increasing attention is being paid to contextual circumstances, with attention shifting to the relationship between institutions and HRM practice, particularly drawing on the literature on comparative capitalisms and rational hierarchical accounts. This chapter further extends reflections on cultural and institutional factors influencing HRM in…
Global supply chains and social relations at work
Global supply chains are not just instruments for the exchange of economic goods and flow of capital across borders. They also connect people in unprecedented ways across social and cultural boundaries and have created new, interrelated webs of social relationships that are socially embedded. However, most of the existing theories of work are mainly based at the level of the corporation, not on the network of relations that interlink them, and ho…
The resource curse without natural resources
Many resource-rich countries have experienced a range of negative economic and political effects from natural resource extraction, often lumped together as the 'resource curse'. This article investigates to what extent expectations of future natural resource booms in So Tom e Prncipe and Madagascar led to 'resource curse' effects, even though these countries did not experience the expected booms. It finds that both countries experienced resource …
Union renewal in historical perspective
This article revisits contemporary union renewal/revival debates through comparison with the late 1930s resurgence of trade unionism in the UK's engineering industry. It is argued that the 1930s union renewal arose from more favourable contextual conditions than those currently obtaining. It was led by political activists, with better-articulated organisation and greater resonance in the working class than their contemporary counterparts, who wer…
Legal Origin and Social Solidarity
By using the classic works of Durkheim as a theoretical platform, this research explores the relationship between legal systems and social solidarity. We found that certain types of civil law system, most notably those of Scandinavia, are associated with higher levels of social capital and better welfare state provision. However, we found the relationship between legal system and societal outcomes is considerably more complex than suggested by cu…
Rethinking Greek Capitalism through the Lens of Industrial Relations Reform
Although the literature on comparative capitalism has been expanded to encompass the Mixed Market Economies (MMEs) of the Mediterranean world and other less mature institutional arrangements, it can be argued that more attention needs to be accorded to internal diversity within capitalist archetypes and the nature and path of change. In focusing on the latter, this paper explores changes in Industrial relations (Ir) regulation and practice in Gre…
The lion wakes
Although there is a brief scamper through its early years, starting from 1865 when HSBC first opened for business (in Hong Kong), the focus of this book is on the decades from the 1980s, ending, pe
Brexit
The unprecedented geopolitical shift resulting from Brexit reflects deep socio-economic fault lines within and beyond the UK. In many ways foreshadowing the US presidential election of Donald Trump, Brexit brought to the surface and gave a public voice to socio-economic divisions that were deeply embedded, sometimes illogical, but until now had either been ignored or hushed out of ‘respectable’ public debate. This Discussion Forum emanates from a…
Rule breaking in social care
Taking a longitudinal case study approach, this article examines the process of rule breaking in a newly formed UK domiciliary care provider. In this study, the founder acted in such a manner so as to partially decouple the organization from externally imposed institutional rules and regulations, allowing the emergence of informal rules between carer and client. These informal rules increasingly guided the behaviours of care workers over time, re…
Tripartism in Comparative and Historical Perspective
This article provides an overview of interpretive approaches to the historic development of tripartism globally. Locating tripartism firmly within four broad approaches to labour management, we seek to qualify those strands that regard the phenomemon as lacking in current relevance. We argue that elements of post-war compromises persist and indeed have been recently initiated even if in many societies they exist in dilute form. Thus, the concept'…
The ending of southern Africa's tripartite dream
This article examines the rise and decline of tripartite experiments in southern Africa, focusing on South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, where tripartism emerged as part of the broader processes of democratisation and embedding democratic institutions. Why did these experiments largely fail to achieve the gains for labour that might have been anticipated? In each case, the lack of success can be ascribed to the ecosystemic dominance of neo-libe…
Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt,Private Equity at Work
Journal Article Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt, Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street, New York, Russel Sage Foundation, 2014 Get access Julie Froud Julie Froud * Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 13, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 813–820, …
The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations
There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional 'silos', such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties of capitalism, with limited dialogue between different approaches to enhance understanding of institutional effects. Again, evaluations of the relation…
Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations
Comparative Capitalism without Capitalism, and Production without Workers
The aim of this paper is to consider the extent to which the comparative capitalism literature fully reflects the available empirical evidence in its attempts to model different versions of capitalism and, in particular, whether it adequately captures the roles of diverse stakeholders within the capitalist system. In doing so, particular attention is accorded to the varieties of capitalism literature, business systems theory and regulation theory…
Capitalist diversity and diversity within capitalism
At the heart of debates around internal diversity within specific national contexts lie the questions of social action and the relative impact of institutional concentrations at spatial, industrial and specific hierarchical levels. Internal diversity represents the product of specific historical legacies and the uneven nature of change, the effects of transnational players and regulation, the operation of complementarity, and of regional and sect…
Brexit
The unprecedented geopolitical shift resulting from Brexit reflects deep socio-economic fault lines within and beyond the UK. In many ways foreshadowing the US presidential election of Donald Trump, Brexit brought to the surface and gave a public voice to socio-economic divisions that were deeply embedded, sometimes illogical, but until now had either been ignored or hushed out of ‘respectable’ public debate. This Discussion Forum emanates from a…
Global supply chains and social relations at work
Global supply chains are not just instruments for the exchange of economic goods and flow of capital across borders. They also connect people in unprecedented ways across social and cultural boundaries and have created new, interrelated webs of social relationships that are socially embedded. However, most of the existing theories of work are mainly based at the level of the corporation, not on the network of relations that interlink them, and ho…
The institutional basis of economic failure
There has been a glaring lack of research on institutional configurations, which impede rather than promote economic success. Building on Richard Whitley's business systems theory and based on the experience of East Africa, this paper attempts to fill a gap in the literature by identifying a distinct variety of capitalism, the segmented business system. Segmented business systems are characterized by rigid internal divisions between different are…
The Rise of Post-Bureaucracy
Theories of post-bureaucracy point to a breakdown of traditional modes of managerial authority in the face of a range of pressures commonly associated with globalization and technological advance. This may make for a proliferation of alternative practices and/or allow for a genuine sharing of power in the workplace, associated with higher levels of responsible autonomy. Based on the findings of a series of transnational surveys, this article conf…
Tentative Steps towards Multi-Partyism in Mozambique
Based on a range of documentary sources and in-depth interviews, this article focuses on the changing fortunes of Mozambique's political parties following democratization. On the one hand, most seem firmly committed to the new multi-party system, whilst the prospect of a resumption of general armed hostilities has become increasingly remote. On the other hand, there are few clear policy differentials between the major parties. Indeed, the bulk of…
Business and politics in São Tomé e Príncipe
Negocios politicos em Sao Tome e Principe : da monocultura do cacau ao Estado petrolifero. ; Em diversos momentos historicos, o arquipelago de Sao Tome e Principe (STP) teve uma importância maior no sistema economico global. No seculo XVI as ilhas eram o maior produtor mundial de acucar, e no seculo XIX e inicios do seculo XX, foram um dos principais fornecedores de cacau e de cafe. A producao de cacau tornou-se em seguida bastante insignificante…
The 1994 election and Mozambiaque's democratic transition
1995). The 1994 election and Mozambiaque's democratic transition. Democratization: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 362-376
The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions
The discussion on ‘The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions’ gives us a state-of-the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the field of political economy. It invites us to broaden our knowledge on the changing realities of different geographical regions in energy transition. In this discussion forum, Finnegan discusses emerging themes in the comparative political economy literature of climate …
We Are the Poors
Mobilization, Internal Cohesion, and Organized Labor
The strategic choices unions make are shaped by rank and file perceptions and the extent of commitment to a broad trade union-based project for social redress. This article explores the extent of internal unity and the nature and underpinnings of organizational participation by members of South Africa's largest trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, based on a nationwide survey of trade union members conducted in the …
Union renewal in historical perspective
This article revisits contemporary union renewal/revival debates through comparison with the late 1930s resurgence of trade unionism in the UK's engineering industry. It is argued that the 1930s union renewal arose from more favourable contextual conditions than those currently obtaining. It was led by political activists, with better-articulated organisation and greater resonance in the working class than their contemporary counterparts, who wer…
Legal Origin and Social Solidarity
By using the classic works of Durkheim as a theoretical platform, this research explores the relationship between legal systems and social solidarity. We found that certain types of civil law system, most notably those of Scandinavia, are associated with higher levels of social capital and better welfare state provision. However, we found the relationship between legal system and societal outcomes is considerably more complex than suggested by cu…
Wayward agents, dominant elite, or reflection of internal diversity? A critique of Folkman, Froud, Johal and Williams on financialisation and financial intermediaries
Based on their earlier work on managerial capitalism and the literature on financialisation, P. Folkman, J. Froud, S. Johal, and K. Williams (2007, ‘Working for themselves: Financial intermediaries and present day capitalism’, Business History, 49(4), 552–572) argue that the rise of capital market intermediaries has both eroded traditional managerial power, and constitutes a powerful interest grouping with a distinct agenda that has a vested inte…
Democratization in Mozambique
This article explores the nature of party political competition four years after Mozambique's first democratic national elections, with particular attention being accorded to the democratization of local government. It commences with an overview of the nature of contemporary party politics in Mozambique. Secondly, the democratization of local government is reviewed. Thirdly, recent political developments are located within the context of major ec…
Rural class formation in Bangladesh, 1940–1980
Rural class formation in Bangladesh is not a straightforward and uniform process of polarization between expanding capitalist farmers and poor peasants/tenants who are being steadily pushed off their land. There is certainly a rise in the incidence of landlessness but it cannot simply be attributed to rural capitalist expansion or the rapid increase in population, although the latter is a significant variable. This paper argues that during the la…
A closer look at the positive crossover between supervisors and subordinates
How can we explain the crossover of positive experiences from supervisors to their subordinates? Drawing on crossover research and social learning theory (SLT), our main goal in this study is to explore mechanisms and boundary conditions to understand how positive crossover occurs from supervisors to their subordinates. We focus on the nature and foundations of positive crossover in the domains of work and home, and explore the downstream consequ…
Rule breaking in social care
Taking a longitudinal case study approach, this article examines the process of rule breaking in a newly formed UK domiciliary care provider. In this study, the founder acted in such a manner so as to partially decouple the organization from externally imposed institutional rules and regulations, allowing the emergence of informal rules between carer and client. These informal rules increasingly guided the behaviours of care workers over time, re…
International Homogenization or the Persistence of National Practices
This paper is the first systematic attempt to provide an overview of industrial relations practices at firm level in Mozambique. Through a nationwide survey of firms, the paper assesses the extent to which specific sets of practices are associated with particular regions, and/or sectors, and explores the relationship between IR practice and national institutional realities. The survey revealed that informalism and autocratic managerialism charact…
Tripartism in Comparative and Historical Perspective
This article provides an overview of interpretive approaches to the historic development of tripartism globally. Locating tripartism firmly within four broad approaches to labour management, we seek to qualify those strands that regard the phenomemon as lacking in current relevance. We argue that elements of post-war compromises persist and indeed have been recently initiated even if in many societies they exist in dilute form. Thus, the concept'…
The ending of southern Africa's tripartite dream
This article examines the rise and decline of tripartite experiments in southern Africa, focusing on South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, where tripartism emerged as part of the broader processes of democratisation and embedding democratic institutions. Why did these experiments largely fail to achieve the gains for labour that might have been anticipated? In each case, the lack of success can be ascribed to the ecosystemic dominance of neo-libe…
The limits of transnational solidarity
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the main union federation in South Africa, was instrumental in ending apartheid. This paper evaluates COSATU's post-apartheid role in working for democracy elsewhere in Southern Africa through deepening transnational solidarity, focusing on its role in Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Although the federation successfully mobilised trade union members to oppose the contravention of human and labor rights…
Social Relations, Firms and Societies
Business systems theory holds that specific nations are locked onto a particular developmental trajectory reflecting differences in both institutional configuration and corresponding social agency; these variations are reflected in the role and structuring of firms and employment practices. This article uses an international survey of firms to test the extent to which specific national business systems are distinguished by the nature and extent o…
The consequences of neo‐corporatism
Seeks to highlight the range of potential benefits flowing from neo‐corporatism. Profiles some of the principle critiques of the neo‐liberal orthodoxy followed by a more detailed review of the benefits in terms of limiting inflation, generating employment, promoting greater social equity, reducing the incidence of industrial conflict and providing the basis for a more stable growth trajectory. Considers the area where evidence is lacking and uses…
Cosmopolitanism and its aftermath
This article explores the rise and fall of Greek and Turkish business and commerce in Alexandria, Egypt. As the existing literature alerts us, shifting forms of colonial rule made for a complex and multifaceted cosmopolitanism, in which each community secured a distinct economic space. In part, this was due to the insertion of Alexandria into the growing world economy of the nineteenth century, which allowed for both the rise of modern businesses…
Examining Statistics on the Higher Civil Service
The Financing Procedures of British Foreign Trade
Journal Article The Financing Procedures of British Foreign Trade Get access The Financing Procedures of British Foreign Trade. By Stephen Carse, John Williamson and Geoffrey Wood. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 151. £11.00.) Peter McGregor Peter McGregor Strathclyde University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 362, 1 June 1981, Pages 571–572, h…
Rural class formation in Bangladesh, 1940–1980
Rural class formation in Bangladesh is not a straightforward and uniform process of polarization between expanding capitalist farmers and poor peasants/tenants who are being steadily pushed off their land. There is certainly a rise in the incidence of landlessness but it cannot simply be attributed to rural capitalist expansion or the rapid increase in population, although the latter is a significant variable. This paper argues that during the la…
Empirical philosophies of mind
Three anthropological contributions within the debates on rationality and modes of thought are considered here: Horton's ‘African Traditional Thought and Western Science’, Gellner's Legitimation of Belief and Needham's Belief, Language and Experience. It is argued that within these texts, seemingly diverse and even opposed in theoretical position though they are, certain anthropological imperatives are common. Various philosophical views are invo…
Frazer's magic wand of anthropology interpreting 'The Golden Bough
Whodoes not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?' asks Sir James Frazer at the beginning of his journey into the underworld of primitive magic and superstition called The Golden Bough. And indeed who does not know Frazer's work itself, if not in the full twelve volumes edition, then in the continually reprinted abridged version, or if not by academic reference then as a popular classic entrenched in modern culture?. This paper re-examines …
Plunder without Danger
Aid donors generally fund projects which are administered by local state approaches. Characteristically there is a gap between the expectations and intentions of the donors and those of the politicians and administrators involved in this process. Here technical and administrative criteria can be used to justify policy and administrative decisions which in fact have directly political and redistributive consequences; alliances between local politi…
The 1973 Durban strikes
The 1973 Durban strike wave was for most people a totally unexpected event. With more than 60 000 black workers involved, it was a major cause for concern among the company owners, state officials and the public. This article evaluates the 1973 Durban strike wave and the events leading up to it. It is argued that the strike wave was the result of a combination of factors, ranging from increased inflationary pressures to a complex chain of politic…
The present and future role of the Transkei defence force in a changing South Africa
Of ecstacies or of rhizomes; of social jesting of social critique? Key issues surrounding postmodernism
This article assesses some of the key divisions and contradictions in postmodemist social theory and the possible pragmatic alternatives thereto. It is argued that one of the most important debates in the postmodernist camp is between those who, true to its radical roots, believe in the possibility of far-reaching social transformation and those who argue that there is no escape from an inherently oppressive hyperreal existence. It is concluded t…
The Horsemen are coming’
During the 1950's, a series of peasant revolts took place in the South African homelands. Whilst they occurred from Zeerust to Witzieshoek, by far the largest was the Pondoland rebellion of 1959-61. It culminated in the declaration of a State of Emergency in the region and was only crushed when large numbers of police and troops were rushed to the area. It was significant not only on account of its size, but also owing to the emergent social move…
Space for theory
Apartheid City in Transition by M. Swilling, R. Humphries and K. Shubane (eds.). Oxford, Cape Town, 1991. xx plus 377pp. including introduction and index. Homes Apart by A. Lemon (ed.). David Philip, Cape Town, 1991. xi plus 237pp. including preface and index. The Apartheid City and Beyond by D. Smith (ed.). Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1992. xii plus 322 pp. including preface, introduction and index
The Long March of Labour
The 1994 election and Mozambiaque's democratic transition
1995). The 1994 election and Mozambiaque's democratic transition. Democratization: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 362-376
The South African Military in Transition
This paper assesses the process of military restructuring in South Africa in the context of that country's negotiated transition. A number of key issues, ranging from the practicalities of the integration process to future defence doctrines, are explored. It is concluded that the restructuring in the military has mirrored the process of elite pacting between key sociopolitical actors. On the one hand, this has ensured the stability of the transit…
Tentative Steps towards Multi-Partyism in Mozambique
Based on a range of documentary sources and in-depth interviews, this article focuses on the changing fortunes of Mozambique's political parties following democratization. On the one hand, most seem firmly committed to the new multi-party system, whilst the prospect of a resumption of general armed hostilities has become increasingly remote. On the other hand, there are few clear policy differentials between the major parties. Indeed, the bulk of…
Democratization in Mozambique
This article explores the nature of party political competition four years after Mozambique's first democratic national elections, with particular attention being accorded to the democratization of local government. It commences with an overview of the nature of contemporary party politics in Mozambique. Secondly, the democratization of local government is reviewed. Thirdly, recent political developments are located within the context of major ec…
The consequences of neo‐corporatism
Seeks to highlight the range of potential benefits flowing from neo‐corporatism. Profiles some of the principle critiques of the neo‐liberal orthodoxy followed by a more detailed review of the benefits in terms of limiting inflation, generating employment, promoting greater social equity, reducing the incidence of industrial conflict and providing the basis for a more stable growth trajectory. Considers the area where evidence is lacking and uses…
The Birth, Life and Demise of a Currency
The Birth, Life and Demise of a Currency: 50 Years of the Deutsche Mark Get access Forrest Capie, Forrest Capie City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Geoffrey Wood Geoffrey Wood City University Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 111, Issue 472, 1 June 2001, Pages 449–461, https://doi.org/10.1111/146…
South African Trade Unions in a Time of Adjustment
DURING THE LATE apartheid era, the South African economy was both weakened by sanctions and disinvestment, and sheltered by the then government's protection ist policies. Democratization has brought with it both the lifting of embargos, and the phasing out of tariff barriers and decentralization incentives, which offered substantial state subsidies for industries located near the former bantustans. This has posed certain challenges for organized …
Mobilization, Internal Cohesion, and Organized Labor
The strategic choices unions make are shaped by rank and file perceptions and the extent of commitment to a broad trade union-based project for social redress. This article explores the extent of internal unity and the nature and underpinnings of organizational participation by members of South Africa's largest trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, based on a nationwide survey of trade union members conducted in the …
Organizing Unionism and the Possibilities for Perpetuating a Social Movement Role
Based on a nationwide survey of members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), this paper explores the extent to which the federation remains true to the culture and strategies of "organizing unionism," through the persistence of its past social movement role. It focuses on two specific issues: the federation's relationship with community and political organizations, and the degree to which it is in a position to pursue a "moral …
The politics of trade unions in transition
This article explores changes in political allegiances within the South African labour movement, drawing on the findings of a nation-wide survey of members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Recent research shows that the Tripartite Alliance between the ANC, COSATU and the South African Communist Party remains overwhelmingly popular amongst COSATU members. This article shows that this appears to be both a product of South Afr…
Under What Circumstances Do Social Accords Work?
Business and politics in São Tomé e Príncipe
Negocios politicos em Sao Tome e Principe : da monocultura do cacau ao Estado petrolifero. ; Em diversos momentos historicos, o arquipelago de Sao Tome e Principe (STP) teve uma importância maior no sistema economico global. No seculo XVI as ilhas eram o maior produtor mundial de acucar, e no seculo XIX e inicios do seculo XX, foram um dos principais fornecedores de cacau e de cafe. A producao de cacau tornou-se em seguida bastante insignificante…
We Are the Poors
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