... stud-ies (Arthur, 19 94; Delancy & Huselid, 19 96; Delery & Doty, 19 96; Huselid, 19 95; Huselid & Bechker, 19 96; Ichniowski et al., 19 96; MacDuffie, 19 95; Youndt et al., 19 96), by some ... UK (Guest & Conway, 19 98; Guest et al., 2000a; Guest et al., 2000b; Patter-son et al., 19 97; Wood, 19 95, 19 99a; Wood & Albanses, 19 95; Wood & de Menezes, 19 98) and by some in Asia ... addi-tion, the comments of Boselie et al. (20 01: 11 16) are interesting as they state that: ‘In general, a variety of exogenous influences are seen to restrict management s room for manoeuvre, notably...