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PurposeThis paper examines the leading trends for the journal Employee Relations from 1979 to 2018 upon its completion of 40 years of publication. Through conducting a bibliometric analysis, the article presents the journal's publication and citation structure, prominent themes, significant author keywords and leading articles, authors, institutions and countries since its formation.Design/methodology/approachThe article focuses on the journal's evolution and subsequent growth patterns during this period. Using the Scopus database, the leading trends in authorship, institutions, countries as well as cited documents along with the articles citing it were analysed to provide an analytic overview of the journal over the period of 1979–2018. The paper presents a graphical visualization of the bibliographic data with bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis using the visualization tools of similarity viewer software as well.FindingsThe results indicate that the journal is on a progressive trend both in terms of productivity as well as the level of influence in the areas for which it is indexed. The journal receives the maximum influence from the UK, including its most productive authors and institutions. The journal has published research on prominent topics in human resource management, employee relations and the field of industrial relations. It has also published 25 special issues on recent trends in the domain of Human Resource (HR).Originality/valueThis article offers the first comprehensive evaluation of the intellectual structure and research contributions of the journal over its lifespan. The findings of the article are useful for researchers and HR practitioners.

This paper studies how the nature and shape of the relationship between inter- national diversification (ID) and performance (P) may vary according to a firm's geographical focus of internationalization. Using a sample of Spanish multinational firms for the 2004—2012 period we find an M-shaped relationship. However, significant differences are found when the different geographical foci of internationalization are considered. Strong support is found when firms adopt a regional focus (an inverted S-curve when the ID measure refers to the number of foreign countries and an M-curve when it refers to the size of the network of foreign sub- sidiaries), a biregional focus (an S-curve) and a semiglobal focus (an inverted S-curve but also an M-curve with foreign subsidiaries). These findings and their pattern suggest the critical impor- tance of the country of origin and the geographical focus of internationalization in explaining the relationship between ID—P.JEL CLASSIFICATION C33; F23; G15; L25

Linking municipal-level homicide rates from 1990 through 2018 with data from the Mexican Migration Project, we estimate a series of multinomial discrete-time event history models to assess the effect that exposure to lethal violence has on the likelihood of migration within Mexico and to the U.S. without documents. Statistical estimates indicate that the homicide rate negatively predicts the probability of taking a first undocumented trip to the U.S. but positively predicts the likelihood of taking a first trip within Mexico. Among those undocumented migrants, who have already taken a first U.S. trip, lethal violence also negatively predicts the likelihood of taking a second undocumented trip. Among returned internal migrants whose first trip was to a Mexican destination, the odds of taking a first undocumented trip were also negatively predicted by the municipal homicide rate. Violence in Mexico is not a driver of undocumented migration to the U.S.

Increasing Navy Fleet size requires an increase and diversity of maritime facilities. By 2035, around half of the world's submarines will be operating in the IndoPacifc region (Defence 2016). Submarines offer a unique defence capability and play an essential role in supporting Australia's maritime security. When berthed, submarines sit lower in the water than other large military vessels and experience more excessive motions in operational wave conditions. As such, shore connected floating pontoons are an important option for developing and operating submarine facilities and are particularly appropriate for both the docking and loading of submarines. The safety of Navy personnel during loading of munitions and general operational tasks require that safe working limits be placed on the motions of these piled floating pontoons. At present, there are no standards assigning suitable limits of motion for floating pontoons in order to maintain the safety/comfort of users undertaking operational activities. This research proposes a set of operational safe motion limits in the form of accelerations to ensure the comfort and safety of floating pontoon users. Experimental work has been undertaken and data collected on the motions of a piled floating pontoon subjected to regular waves, representative of a harbour environment. Pontoon widths, drafts and skirts have been examined under varying wave conditions. The research has found that in many circumstances, the pontoon motions exceed proposed safe working limits and that the application of different pontoon design features can be used to reduce the accelerations of motion to within operational safe motion limits.