Chiara Benassi

Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at King’s Business School

Schools

  • King’s Business School

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Biography

King’s Business School

Chiara joined King’s College London as Lecturer in HRM and ESRC Future Research Leader fellow (2016-2018) in October 2016. Previous to her appointment at King’s, she was Lecturer in HRM at Royal Holloway, University of London and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. She held visiting positions at the Free University in Berlin, at the University of Milan and at the Institute for Economic and Social Research in Bologna.

Chiara’s research is in the area of comparative human resource management and comparative employment relations. In particular, she investigates how national and local institutions as well as political and economic contingencies affect companies’ human resource strategies in the areas of internal and external flexibility, training and knowledge management. Her work has been published in international academic journals such as the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Socio-Economic Review and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and by the Hans Boeckler Foundation.

Chiara is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research Interests

Political economy, comparative HRM, comparative employment relations, flexibility, training, collective bargaining, knowledge management.

Publications

  • Out of sight, out of mind: The challenge of external work arrangements for industrial manufacturing unions in Germany and Italy 20 December 2019
  • Not all firms are created equal: SMEs and vocational training in the UK, Italy, and Germany 01 January 2019
  • Going up-skill: Exploring the transformation of the German skill formation system 17 September 2018
  • Theoretical and Empirical Links between Trade Unions and Democracy 01 January 2018
  • Explaining divergent bargaining outcomes for agency workers: The role of labour divides and labour market reforms 22 June 2018
  • Varieties of workplace dualization: A study of agency work in the German automotive industry 01 November 2017
  • Softening Institutions: The Liberalization of German Industrial Relations 01 January 2017
  • The political economy of agency work in Italy and Germany: A multi-level framework to explain diverging collective bargaining outcomes 01 January 2018
  • Policy-Making Under the Troika: Labor Market Reforms in the PIIGS States: Introduction 01 January 2016
  • Throwing Out the Ballast: Growth Models and the Liberalization of German Industrial Relations 01 January 2017

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