Russell Lansbury
MA Melb. DipEd Melb. PhD Lond. Hon DLitt Macq., FASSA
Professor
r.lansbury@econ.usyd.edu.au
Room 413
H03 Institute Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 3119
Fax: +61 2 9351 4729
Professor Lansbury has worked with British Airways in the UK and has held a number of academic positions in universities within Australia and elsewhere. He was a Senior Lecturer at Monash University before becoming an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University. He was the foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (an ARC Key Centre) at the University of Sydney.
He was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University and the Sloan School of Management at MIT, has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Swedish Centre for Worklife Research in Stockholm and was a Visiting Fellow at the International Institute for Labour Studies at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. He has also been a Shaw Foundation Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has received fellowships from the French, German, Danish, Finnish and Swedish governments in recent decades.
Russell Lansbury is joint editor of the Journal of Industrial Relations and serves on the editorial boards of leading academic journals in North America, Europe and Asia. His major research contributions have been in the areas of international and comparative employment and industrial relations. His current research includes studies of the effects of management strategies of multinational enterprises on employment relations and labour practices. Recent publications include International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage, 2005, with G.J. Bamber and N. Wailes), After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Relations in the World Auto Industry (Cornell University Press, 1997, with T.A. Kochan and J.P. MacDuffie) and Changing Employment Relations in Australia (Oxford University Press, 1997). His latest book is The Global Korean Motor Industry: The Hyundai Motor Company?s Global Strategy (Routledge, 2006, with C.S. Suh and S.H. Kwon).
He has served on numerous government, industry and professional bodies. He has been a consultant to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He is the current President of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) based at the ILO in Geneva.
Research Expertise
- Employee participation in management
- Globalisation and employment relations
- International and comparative industrial relations
- Korean motor industry
- Organisational change
- Technological change
- Work reform