Publications and Academic Contributions

What has “Common-Good HRM” contributed?

Our “Common-Good HRM” project is new and on-going but to date we have made the following academic contributions:

Journal articles.

Aust, I., Matthews, B., & Muller-Camen, M. (2020).

Common Good HRM: A paradigm shift in Sustainable HRM?. Human Resource Management

 Review, 30(3), 100705. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053482218303917

Book Chapters.

Matthews, B., & Baum, T. (2025). SDG8, decent work, economic growth and HRM. In Aust-Gronarz, I., Cooke, F. & Semeijn, J. (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Human Resource Management and the Sustainable Development Goals. Edward Elgar Publishing.
 

Matthews, B., Lemanski, M. & Muller-Camen, M. (2025). SDGs and HRM from the perspective of the (changing) ‘purpose of the firm’ theories.   In Aust-Gronarz, I., Cooke, F. & Semeijn, J. (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to Human Resource Management and the Sustainable Development Goals. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Matthews, B., & Muller-Camen, M. (2025). Sustainable HRM – a critical and commons-centric perspective. In Collins, D., Wood, G. & Szamosi (Eds.) Human Resource Management -a critical approach (3^rd ed.). Routledge.

Matthews, B. Müller-Camen, M. & Wieland, J. (2025). Game, set and match! Creating an organizational growth mindset and positive organizational behavior through Common-Good HRM. In Cooper, C. L., Subhendu, P. and Raul, V. R. (eds) Advancing Positive Organizational Behaviour, 1st ed., Routledge (in print).

Matthews, B., Obereder, L., Aust, I., & Müller-Camen, M. (2018).

Competing paradigms: Status quo and alternative approaches in HRM. In Contemporary Developments in Green Human Resource Management Research (pp. 116-134). Routledge.

Müller-Camen, M., Weibler, J., Matthews, B., & Riess, C. (2019).

Transformationen im Personalmanagement: Die Beispiele Sonnentor und Tele Haase. In Chancen und Grenzen der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation (pp. 79-93). Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden.

Conference papers.

Matthews, B., Lemanski, M., Bader, V, & Muller-Camen, M (2024). 
“Digital Commons Organizing”, Collective Action and Sustainable HRM. Presented at the International Labour Organization (ILO) 8^th Regulating for
Decent Work Conference, Geneva, July 2023. Revised version presented at the 5^th HRIC AOM Conference in Otago, NZ, January 2024.

Brian Matthews and Michael Müller-Camen (2022).
Workplace Resonance and Common-Good HRM. Introducing a relational,
socio-ontological framework. Presented at WK Personal Berlin, September 2022.  “Best Paper Award” First presented at SASE 2021, under the title: HRM: on a sustainable path or a cul-de-sac? Introducing a critical, socio-ontological perspective.

Matthews Brian (2023).
Decent Work in Digital-Capitalism. Overcoming asymmetries of stakeholder-voice through   Common-Good HRM. First presented at the Early Scholar Workshop JKU 2020, under the title: Digitalization, Flexibilization and Decent Work. The implications for Human Resource Management. Revised version accepted for presentation at The International Labour Process Conference Glasgow April 2023.
 

Matthews, B., & Muller-Camen, M. (2022).
Employee Capabilities, Workplace Resonance, and Common-Good HRM. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2022, No. 1, p. 13376). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.
 

Ina Aust, Michael Muller-Camen, Brian Matthews (2019).
The Path to True Sustainability in HRM: Introduction of a Typology. Presented at the 34th Workshop for Strategic Human Resource Management-European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Vienna.

Special issues.

Bratton, A., Renwick, D., Paillé, P., Leidner, S, Matthews, B. (eds) (2024) Special Issue Sustainable HRM practices and organizational performance: Relationships of Association or Impact? Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, in preparation
https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/sustainable-hrm-practices-and-organizational-performance-relationships-association

German Journal of Human Resource Management Special Issue call for papers Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through a Common-Good HRM: Context, approach and practice Guest Editors: Ina Aust, Université Catholique de Louvain LSM, Belgium. Fang Lee Cooke, Monash University, Australia. Michael Muller-Camen, WU-Vienna, Austria. Geoffrey Wood, Western University, Canada.

Organized Conferences, Workshops.

International Common Good HRM Spring Workshop 2024
A Common-Good Perspective on Sustainable HRM:
Contributions to navigating ecological and social sustainability challenges.

International Common Good HRM Conference 2025
Navigating Insecurities: Advancing Common Good HRM for Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Workplaces.

International Common Good HRM Conference 2026
Working Together for Tomorrow: Encouraging and Managing Collective Action for the Common Good.

“Striving for Impact: Sustainable HRM for the Common-Good” Workshop 2023, hosted by the WU Wien, Austria and UCLouvain Belgium, 14-15.03, 2023, Vienna.
 

Research Collaborations.
Research cooperation between the Int. CGHRM Network and the CGHRM Research Cluster at the Open University (UK) on the project         
‘The Common Good HRM Framework for Hybrid Work: An international Comparative Study’.

Research co-operation between the WU-Institute for Human Resource Management, Vienna (Brian Matthews), and the Human Resource Management & Employment Relations Research Team at the University of Innsbruck (Julia Brandl, Leverne Iminza Chore),to explore synergies, similarities and differences between the concepts of Common-Good HRM and The Economics of Convention.