Professor Gregory Jackson
Contact Details:G.S.Jackson@bath.ac.uk |
BA (University of Wisconsin-Madison), PhD (Columbia University)
Job Title: Professor of Business and Society Subject Group: Business, Society and Business Economics Key Research Interests: Corporate Governance; Comparative HRM; Economic Sociology; QCA and Set Theoretic Research Methods
Gregory Jackson’s research examines how corporate governance is influenced by diverse organizational and institutional contexts. His research utilizes cross-national comparison to better understand the regulatory and other societal influences on the corporation, particularly using the cases of Germany, Japan, the UK and USA. His research aims to link disparate fields of scholarship, including institutional theory, organizational analysis, economic sociology, and comparative political economy. Particular empirical interests have been the market for corporate control, as well as the relationship of corporate governance and labour management. His current projects seek to apply methods of fuzzy set and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to understanding
Gregory Jackson’s research has been published widely in leading business journals. A number of his projects on public policy have been sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry (UK), the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Japan), the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, and the Hans-Boeckler Foundation (Germany). His research also is cited by The Economist, Financial Times, and BBC radio. He organizes the research network on 'markets, firms and institutions’ in the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). |
Recent Publications 2001 to dateStrange, R. & Jackson, G. (Eds). 2008. Corporate Governance and International Business: Strategy, Performance and Institutional Change. Academy of International Business Series, Vol. 15, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. (Co-edited with Roger Strange). Aoki, M., Jackson, G. & Miyajima, H. (Eds.) 2007. Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Filatotchev, I., Gospel, H., Jackson, G. & Allcock, D. 2007. Key Drivers of ‘Good’ Corporate Governance and the Appropriateness of Policy Responses in the UK. Report to the Department of Trade and Industry, 204 pages, 2007. Donnelly, S., Gamble, A., Jackson, G., & Parkinson, J. 2001. The public interest and the company in Germany and Britain. London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, 2001. Jackson, G. 2009. [forthcoming]. The Japanese Firm and its Diversity, Economy and Society. Jackson, G. & Deeg, R. 2008. From comparing capitalisims to the politics of institutional change. Review of International Political Economy, 15(4): 680-709. Click here for article Jackson, G. 2008. A New Financial Capitalism? Explaining the Persistence of Exit over Voice in Contemporary Corporate Governance, European Management Review, Vol.5, Issue 1, 2008, p.23-26. Click here for article Deeg, R. & Jackson, G. 2008. Comparing capitalisms: understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business, Journal of International Business Studies, 39(4), p.540-561. Click here for article Aguilera, R., Filatotchev, I., Gospel, H. & Jackson, G. 2008. An Organizational Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: Costs, Contingencies and Complementarities, Organization Science, Vol.19, No.3, p.475-492. Click here for article Aoki, M. & Jackson, G. 2008. Understanding an emerging diversity of corporate governance and organizational architecture: an essentially-based analysis, Industrial and Corporate Change. 17(1). Click here for article Deeg, R. & Jackson, G. 2007. Toward a more dynamic theory of capitalist variety, Soci-Economic Review. Vol.5: 149-179. Click here for article Höpner, M. & Jackson, G. 2006. Revisiting the Mannesmann takeover: how markets for corporate control emerge, European Management Review.Vol. 3, 2006, p.142-155 Click here for article Deeg, R. & Jackson, G. 2006. Comparing capitalisms: recent debates, British Journal of Industrial Relations. 44(3): 569-574. Jackson, G. & Sako, M. 2006. Strategy meets institutions: the transformation of management-labour relations at Deutsche Telekom and NTT, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 59(3): 347-366. Click here for article Jackson, G. 2006. Modeling complementarity: multiple functions and different levels. Socio-Economic Review. 3: 381-383. Jackson, G. 2005. Employee representation in the board compared: a fuzzy-sets analysis of corporate governance, unionism and political institutions, Industrielle Beziehungen [The German Journal of Industrial Relations],252-279. Click here for article Jackson, G. & Moerke, A. 2005. Continuity and change in corporate governance: comparing Germany and Japan. Corporate Governance: An International Review. 13 (3): 351-361. Click here for article Jackson, G. 2005. Stakeholders under pressure: corporate governance reform and labour management in Germany and Japan. Corporate Governance: An International Review. 13 (3): 419-428. Click here for article Jackson, G. 2004. Cōporāto gabanansu to rōmu kanri no hikaku [Corporate governance and labour management: a comparative analysis. Nohon Rōdō KenkyūZasshi [The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies]. 46 (6): 48-62. Click here for article Aguilera, R. & Jackson, G. 2003. The cross-national diversity of corporate diversity: dimensions and determinants. Academy of Management Review, 28 (3): 447-465. Click here for article Jackson, G. & Höpner, M. 2002. The german system of corporate governance between persistence and convergence. Kölner Zeitschrift fűr Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Heft 4: 362-368. Click here for article Jackson, G. 2002. Financial markets and corporation. New Political Economy, 7(1): 121-123. Click here for article Jackson, G. & Höpner, M. 2001. Entsteht ein mrkt fűr unternehmenskontrolle? Der fall Mannesmann [An emerging market for corporate control? The case of Mannesmann takeover]. Leviathan, Heft 4, 544-563. Click here for article Hoepner, M. & Jackson, G. 2001. An Emerging Market for Corporate Control? The Mannesmann Takeover and German Corporate Governance, MPIfG Discussion Paper 01/4, 2001, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies: Köln. Click here for article Jackson, G. 2000. La compétitivité et l’ égalitarisme allemands et jacponais à l’épreuve [The internationalisation of german and japanese capitalism: A choice between competitiveness and equality?]. Critique International, 8: 133-147. Jackson, G. & Strange, R. 2008. Why does corporate governance matter for international business? In Strange, R. & Jackson, G (Eds), corporate governance and international business: strategy, performance and institutional change. Academy of InternationalBusiness Series, 15: 1-14. London, Palgrave. Jackson, G., Hyman, R., Lane, C. & Sako, M. 2008. Dialogue on comparative institutional analysis and international business. In Strange, R. & Jackson, G (Eds), corporate governance and international business: strategy, performance and institutional change. Academy of InternationalBusiness Series, 15: 151-167. London, Palgrave. Jackson, G. & Miyajima, H. 2008. A comparison of mergers and acquisitions in Japan, Europe, and the United States. In Strange, R. & Jackson, G (Eds), Corporate Governance and International Business: Strategy, Performance and Institutional Change. Academy of International Business Series, 15: 186-207. London, Palgrave. Jackson, G. & Miyajima, H. 2007. Introduction, diversity and change of corporate governance in Japan. In Aoki, M., Jackson, G. & Mijajima, H (Eds), Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organisational Diversity. 1-47, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jackson, G. 2007. Employment adjustment and distributional conflict in Japanese firms. In Aoki, M., Jackson, G. & Mijajima, H (Eds), Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organisational Diversity. 282-309, Oxford: Oxford University Press. {follow this link for more info »} Jackson, G. & Gospel, H. 2006. Corporate governance and employee voice: an EU perspective in Percussion, B. (end), And Paths to Progress: Mapping Innovation on Information, Consultation and Participation for Employee Involvement in Corporate Governance. Brussels: Social Development Agency. Jackson, G. 2006. Comparing capitalisms through the lens of classical sociological theory. In Becket, J, Ebbinghaus, B., Hassel, A. & Manow, P. (Eds). Transformational des Capitalisms: Social Institutional und offense Market, Rehire, Bd.-Nr. Christen des Max-Planck-Institutes far Gesellschaftsforschung, Bd. Jackson, G. 2005. Reforming stakeholder models: Germany and Japan compared. Corporate Governance, Human Resource Management and Firm Performance, Department of Trade and Industry, Economics Working Paper, 13. Jackson, G. 2005. Contested boundaries: ambiguity and creativity In the evolution of german codetermination, in Streeck, W. & Thelen, K. (Eds), Beyond Continuity: Explorations in the Dynamics of Advanced Political Economies. 229-254, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jackson, G. 2005. Toward comparative perspective on corporate governance and labour management: enterprise coalitions and national trajectories, in Gospel, H. & Pendleton, A. (eds), Corporate Governance and Labour Management: An International Comparison. 284-309, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jackson, G., Höpner, M. & Kurdelbusch, A. Corporate governance and Employees in Germany: changing linkages, complementaries and tensions, in Gospel, H. & Pendleton, A. (eds). Corporate Governance and Labour Management. 84-121, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jackson, G. 2003. Corporate Governance in germany and japan: liberalization pressures and responses, in Yamamura, K. & Streeck, W. (eds), The End of Diversity? Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism. 261-305, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Jackson, G. & Höpner, M. 2002. Entsteht ein markt fűr unternehmenskontrolle? Der fall Mannesmann, in Höpner, M, & Streeck, W. (eds), Alle Macht dem Markt? Fallstudien zur Abwicklung der Deutschland AG. 147-168, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. Jackson, G. 2002. Corporate Governance im vergkeich: eine methodische betrachtung zu japan und Deutschland, [comparative corporate governance: a methodological perspective on the cases of japan and germany, in Seifert, W. & Weber, C. (eds), Japan im Vergleich, 173-199. Muenchen: Iudicum Verlag. Jackson, G. 2001. The origins of nonliberal corporate governance in germany and japan, in Streeckm W. & Yamamura, K. (eds), The Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: German and Japan, 121-170. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Jackson, G. 2001. Between financial commitment, market liquidity and corporate governance: occupational pensions in britain, germany, japan, and the USA, in Ebbinghaus, B. & Manow, P. (eds), Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and USA, 171-189.London, Routledge. |
