Ian has written extensively on industrial relations and economic performance and the influence of the American business system on Human Resources Management (HRM) in the UK. Ian is currently working on the diffusion of financial capitalism and its implications for managers and workers. This is a collaborative project with Eileen Appelbaum of the Centre for Economic Research in Washington DC, where Ian was a visiting researcher in April 2011. Ian, Eileen and Rose Batt presented a paper on this project at the British Journal of Industrial Relations 50th Anniversary Conference at the London School of Economics in December 2011. Ian has been researching the effects of Investor and Shareholder Value approaches to corporate strategy on HRM and the role of private equity firms in the market for corporate control since 2007. Ian was a member of the panel of experts on the Treasury Select Committee on Private Equity between 2007 and 2009. In addition to this Ian was commissioned by the GMB trade union to help devise the submission that the union made to the committee.  In February 2007 Ian was invited to submit formal written evidence to the Financial Services Authority discussion document on the regulation of private equity.

Ian has published in work employment and society, the international journal of HRM, the human resource management journal, the journal of business ethics. the journal of management studies, organization studies, the European journal of industrial relations and the industrial relations journal and contributes several chapters to Beardwell and Claydon, the UK’s bestselling HRM textbook. In 2010 Ian was appointed an Academic Fellowship by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Ianheads the organization, work and employment  research group in the department of management.

 

Recognised both nationally and internationally as an expert on Americanisation, Ian published a well received monograph on the international relations of industrial relations in 2000. Before joining Birmingham Business School, Ian previously worked at the University of Kent and De Montfort University.Together with former colleagues, Ian produced a large ESRC and Anglo-German Foundation funded multi-country study which examined HRM and industrial relations in subsidiaries of US multinationals. An innovative aspect of this project was its empirical research which was conducted not only at subsidiary level but atcorporate headquarters. Ian, together with Trevor Colling, developed the analysis of sector effects as a conceptual category that both complements and further develops the analysis of country of origin effects and host country effects in international HRM.

 

Ian Clark discusses MSc Human Resource Management

Module leader for International and Comparative HRM, MSc HRM and  MSc International Business

Contriboutor to Contemporary Issues in Work, Employment and Society, MSc. HRM. 

Module Leader HRM, Full-Time MBA and Executive MBA

Module Leader International and Comparative HRM, Undergraduate Programmes.

Module contributor Business in Society, Undergraduate Programmes

Four full-time PhD. completions.

• ‘The Impact of Executive Search and Selection Consultants on the Personnel Function’ (Tim Clark, 1988-1991)
• 'HRM in American and Japanese Subsidiaries in Vietnam’ (Nogc Vo, 2001-2004)
• ‘The Impact of Managers’ Learning Styles and Leadership Styles and the Effectiveness of their Organizations: A Case Study From Retail Tyre Companies in Thailand’, successfully examined in October 2010, (Vissanu Zumitzaven, University of Birmingham, full-time student, 2006-2010.)
• ‘Managing Reverse Knowledge Flows Within and Across MNC Boundaries – The Implications for business and HR Strategies in the Mittlestand sector’, Theresia Herbst, 2006-2010, (University of Birmingham full-time student), thesis submitted September 2010. Successfully examined in May 2011.

 

• International and Comparative HRM
• Investor and Shareholder Value Approaches to Management
• Americanization, American MNCs and the Movement to Financial Capitalism 
• The Financial Crisis, Financialization and Employment (Current Research Project with Jason Heyes and Paul Lewis, position paper recently published by the Industrial Relations Journal)
• Financial Capitalism and the Diffusion of the Private Equity Business Model and its Implications for HRM and Industrial Relations (Funded Research Project with Eileen Appelbaum, CEPR, Washington DC and Rose Batt, Cornell. Paper to be published by the British Journal of Industrial Relations) 
• Absence Management and Labour Management in University Hospital Birmingham (Funded Research Project in collaboration with the Head of Delivery at UHB)

Director of Education for the Department of Management

Chair of the MBA Examination Board and Board of Studies 

Inaugural Lecture

Financial Capitalism, Breach of Trust and Collateral Damage: Cadbury, EMI, Mervyn's and Stuyvesant town / Peter Cooper Village

Books

Clark, I. (2000) ‘Governance, The State, Regulation and Industrial Relations’ published in the Routledge Explorations in Economic History Series. Routledge Research, London. Hardback, ISBN0-415-20263-9, July, 208 pages.

Dr Ian Clark co-authors high selling text - 06/05/10

Book Chapters

Heyes, J. and Clark, I. (2011) ‘The Role of the State’ in Townsend, K. and Wilkinson, A. (Eds) The Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Work and Employment Relations. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, January. Hardback 9781848448469, 320 pages.

Claydon, T. and Clark, I.,  (2010) ‘Comparative HRM: Trends and Prospects’ in  Beardwell and Claydon, 6th edition.

Beardwell, J. and Clark, I. (2010) An Introduction to HRM: Strategy, Style or Outcome’. in Beardwell and Claydon 6th edition.

Clark, I. (2010) ‘The Contract of Employment and Employee Rights at Work’ in Beardwell, J. and Claydon, T. Human Resource Management A Contemporary Perspective, Pearson Education 6th edition.

Clark, I. and Almond, P. (2006) ‘The Origin and Evoloutionof the American Business System’ in Almond, P. and Ferner, A. (Eds) American Multinationals in Europe: Human Resource Policies and Practices. Oxford University Press.

Ferner, A., Almond, P., Butler, P., Clark, I., Colling, T.,Edwards, T. and Holden, L. (2004) ‘Das Human Resource Management Americanisher Unternehmen in Grossbritanien’ in Wacher, H., and Peters,R., (Eds) Personal Politik Amerikanischer Unterehmen in Europe. RainerHamppVerlag, Munchen, Germany.

Clark, I., Almond, P., Tregaskis, O. (2004) HRM in Multinationals: A Comparative International Perspective’ in Beardwell and Claydon, 4th edition.

Journal Articles

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES FOR THE CURRENT RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK PERIOD, January 2009+ (all inclusions are published or are fully accepted and awaiting publication).

Appelbaum, E., Batt, R. and Clark, I. (2013, forthcoming) 'Implications of Financial Capitalism for Employment Relations Research: Evidence from Breach of Trust and Implicit Contracts in Private Equity Buyouts' British Journal of Industrial Relations. Summer.

Heyes, J., Lewis, P., Clark, I. (2012) 'Varieties of Capitalism: The State, Financialization and the Economic Crisis of 2007-? forthcoming Industrial Relations Journal 43(2) 222-241 ABS 2* internationally recognised journal

Clark, I. (2012) 'Templates for Financial Control?' Human Resource Management Journal. Now published on line first March 27th 2012 ABS 3* internationally excellent journal

Clark, I. and Bawden, C. (2011) 'Investment in the UK Retail Sector by Mid-Market Private Equity 2000-2008' Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance Vol. 13(3) 215-243. ABS 2* star ranked internationally recognised journal.

Clark, I. (2011) ‘Private Equity and Union Recognition and Value Extraction at the AA’ Industrial Relations Journal 42(1) 36-50 ABS 2* star ranked internationally recognised journal. 

Morrell, K. and Clark, I. (2010) ‘Private Equity and the Public Good’ Journal of Business Ethics 96:249-263. ABS 3* journal recognised as internationally excellent.

Bailey, D., Clark, I., and De Ruyter, A. (2010) ‘Private Equity and the Flight of the Phoenix Four – The Collapse of MG Rover’ Cambridge Journal of the Regions, Economy and Society’ Volume 3(3) pages 1-15. ABS 2* ranked internally recognised Journal

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Clark, I. (2009a) The Private Equity Business Model And Associated Strategies For HRM: Evidence And Implications? The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 20(10), October, 2030-2048,
ABS, 2009 journal ranked 3*. (2008 RAE rated as internationally excellent)

Clark, I. (2009b) ‘Private Equity in the UK: Job Regulation and Trade Unions’ Journal of Industrial Relations. 51(4) 491-502
ABS, 2009 journal ranked 2 (2008 RAE rated as recognised internationally)

Clark,I. (2009c) ‘Owners not Managers: Disconnecting Managerial Capitalism?Understanding the Take Private Equity Business Model.’ Work, Employment and Society 23(4) December. Pages 775-786.
ABS, 2009 journal ranked 4 (2008 RAE rated as world-leading)

Clark, I. (2008) ‘Private Equity Friend or Foe’ Editor’s Highlight/Leader referred debate article in People Management 21stAugust, pages 18-25.  CIPD, London, ­www.peoplemanagement.co.uk reviewed in BUIRA news no 63, page 1, October 2008, President’s Review. ­www.buira.org.uk  

Clark, I. (2007) Private Equity and HRM in the British Business System’ Human Resource Management Journal 17(3) 218-226.

Clark, I. (2006) ‘Another Third Way:? VW and the Trails of Stakeholder Capitalism’ Industrial Relations Journal 37(6). (cited as atop 20 read paper as at July 2007)

Clark, I. (2006) Bookshelf, European Review Editorial,‘Coherence and Transferability, Expectation and Competitiveness’ Industrial Relations Journal 37(6).

Colling, T. and Clark, I. (2006) ‘What Happened When the Americans Took Over Britain’s Electricity Industry? ExploringTrans-National Sector Effects on Employment Relations’ International Journal of Human Resource Management 19(9) 1625-1644.

Clark, I., Almond, P., Gunnigle, P., Wachter, H. (2005) ‘Americanization in the European Business System’ Industrial Relations Journal 36(6) December, pages 494-517.

Edwards, T., Almond, P., Clark, I., Colling, T. and Ferner, A. (2005). ‘Reverse Diffusion in US Multinationals: Barriers from the American Business System’ Journal of Management Studies 42(6) pages1261-1268.

Clark, I. and Colling, T. (2005) ‘The Management of Human Resources in Project-Led Organizations’ Personnel Review Volume 34(2)178-191.

Ferner, A., Almond, P., Clark, I., Colling, T., Edwards,T., Holden, L., (2004) ‘The Dynamics of Central Control and SubsidiaryAutonomy in the Management of Human Resources: Case Study Evidence fromUS MNC’s in the UK’ Organization Studies Volume 25(3) pages 363-391.

Clark, I. (2004) ‘The Past – ‘A Prequel to the Future’Review Essay on Post-War Productivity Missions, Labour History Review Volume 69(2) 257-259.

Clark, I. and Almond, P. (2004) ‘Dynamism and Embeddedness:Towards a Lower Road?: British Subsidiaries of American Multinationals and the British Business System Industrial Relations Journal Volume35(5) pages 536-556.

Almond, P., Edwards, T. Clark, I. (2003) ‘Multinationals and Changing National Business Systems in Europe: Towards the“Shareholder Value” Model’? Industrial Relations Journal Volume 34 (5),Pages 430-446.

Clark, I., Colling, T., Almond, P., Peters, R., Gunnigle,P., Morley, M., Portillo, M. (2002) ‘Multinationals in Europe 2001-2002: Home Country, Host Country and Sector Effects in the Contextof Crisis’ Industrial Relations Journal Volume 33(5) pages 445-463.

Colling, T. and Clark, I. (2002) ‘ “Looking for Americanness”: Sector Effects in Engineering Process Plant Contracting’ European Journal of Industrial Relations Volume 8(3) pages 301-325.

Clark, I. (2001) ‘Employer Resistance to the Fordist Labour Process’: The Significance of Historical Evidence on the Post-War Period Contemporary British History. Volume 15(2) pp.28-52.

Clark, I. (2001) ‘Strategic HRM as a Budgetary Control Mechanism in the Large Corporation: A Case Study from Engineering Contracting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. December Volume 12797-815 pages

Clark, I. (2000) ‘The Productivity Race – British Manufacturing in Historical Perspective’ Historical Studies in Industrial Relations No. 9 Spring 2000, pages 133-146

Clark, I. (1999) ‘Institutional Stability in Management Practice and Industrial Relations: The Influence of the Anglo-AmericanCouncil for Productivity, 1948-1952’ Business History, Volume 40(3) July. pages 64-92

Clark, I. (1999) ‘Corporate Human Resources and “Bottom Line” Financial Performance’ Personnel Review Volume 28(4) pages 290-307

Reports and Control publications (restricted circulation)

Applebaum, E., Batt, R., Clark, I. (2011) 'Financial Capitalism, Breach of Trust and Collateral Damage' Report published for the Centre for Economic Policy Research, November 2011. Available on the CEPR website, under experts publications - Eileen Appelbaum www.CEPR.net

(No Author Credit, 2011) 'A Long-Term Focus for Corporate Britain' Summary of Responses, Department of Business, March 2011.  

Clark, I. (2007a) Written Evidence submitted to the Financial Services Authority on Private Equity Regulation, March.(Cited as a contributor to the FSA Feedback Report ‘Private Equity: A Discussion of Risk and Regulatory Engagement, June 2007)

Clark, I. (2007b) Private Equity, HRM and the British Business System.  Report and Evidence submitted to the Treasury Select Committee on Private Equity as part of the GMB union submission, April2007.  Published by the TSC as the ‘GMB Memorandum of Submission’, June2007.

No author Credit (2007c) House of Commons TreasuryCommittee, Private Equity, Tenth Report of Session 2006-07 Volume 2: Oral and Written Evidence, House of Commons HC 567-11 August,Stationery Office.  Pages 101-106 authored by Ian Clark.