Book Reviews

Linstead, S., Small Grafton, R. and Jeffcutt, P. Understanding Management . London: Sage, 1996 (Rolland Munro).
Billsberry, J. The Effective Manager: Perspectives and Illustrations . London: Sage, 1996, pp. 348, £14.95 (Stephen King).
Paton, R., Clark, G., Jones, G., Lewis, J. and Quintas, P. The New Management Reader . London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 283, £12.99 (Oswald Jones).
Earl, M. J. (Ed.). Information Management: The Organizational Dimension . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 514, £50 (Oswald Jones).
Attwood, M. and Dimmock, S. Personnel Management . London: Macmillan Press, 1996, pp. 240, £10.99 (Ann Davis).
Collinson, David L. and Hearns, Jeff (Eds). Men as Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements . London: Sage, 1996, pp. 288, ISBN 08039 8929 (Ian Lennie).
Dag Bjorkegren. The Culture Business: Management Strategies for the Arts-related Business . London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 189, £12.99 ISBN 1-415-12235-X pb, £40 ISBN 0-415-12234-1 hb (Matthew Higgins).
Sadler, P. (Ed.). Strategic Change: Building a High Performance Organization . Kidlington, Oxford: Pergamon (Elsevier Science), 1995, pp. xvi + 202, ISBN 0-08-042571-2, hb (Gerard P. Hodgkinson).
Thomas, H., O'Neal, D. and Kelly, J. (Eds). Strategic Renaissance and Business Transformation . Chichester: John Wiley, 1995, pp. xv + 484, ISBN 0-471-95751-8, hb.
Deakins, D. Entrepreneurship and Small Firms . London: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 248, pb (Martin Friel and Rhodri Thomas).
Barkham, R., Gudgin, G., Hart, M. and Hanvey, E. The Determinants of Small Firm Growth. An Inter-regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986–1990 . Regional Policy and Development Series no. 12. London: Jessica Kingsley and Regional Studies Association, pp. 168 (Martin Friel and Rhodri Thomas).     

Schachtner, Michael: Accounting und Unternehmensfinanzierung Eine Analyse b?rsennotierter Unternehmen in Deutschland und der Schweiz Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, 205 S., ISBN: 978-3-8349-1625-9, 49,90 €

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Schachtner, Michael: Accounting und Unternehmensfinanzierung Eine Analyse b?rsennotierter Unternehmen in Deutschland und der Schweiz Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, 205 S., ISBN: 978-3-8349-1625-9, 49,90 €     

Weber, Jürgen: Erfolg der Controller Wie Controller zum Unternehmenserfolg beitragen (Band 68) Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim 2009, 67 S., ISBN: 978-3-527-50421-3, 24,90 €

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Weber, Jürgen: Erfolg der Controller Wie Controller zum Unternehmenserfolg beitragen (Band 68) Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim 2009, 67 S., ISBN: 978-3-527-50421-3, 24,90 €     

Pfennig, Christian: Controllerzufriedenheit Messung — Wirkung — Determinanten Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, 396 S., ISBN: 978-3-8349-1846-8, 59,90 €

Praxis / MagazinLeseliste Top 5: Erfolg des Controllers

Pfennig, Christian: Controllerzufriedenheit Messung — Wirkung — Determinanten Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, 396 S., ISBN: 978-3-8349-1846-8, 59,90 €     

Book Reviews

Grint, Keith (Ed.). Leadership: Classical, Contemporary and Critical Approaches Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997 (Terry Austrin).
Thomas, Howard, O'Neal, Don and Ghertman, Michel (Eds). Strategy, Structure and Style . Chichester: John Wiley, 1997 (Paula Jarzabkowski).
Crawshaw, Robert (Ed.). The European Business Environment: France . UK: International Thomson Publishing, 1997 (Vivienne Shaw).
Júnsson, Sten (Ed.). Accounting for Improvement . UK: Pergamon, 1997 (Hilary Bates).
Archibugi, Daniele and Michie, Jonathan (Eds). Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 303, hb, ISBN 0-521-55392-X, pb, ISBN 0-521-55642-2 (Ram Mudambi).
Reeves, Nigel and Kelly-Holmes, Helen (Eds). The European Business Environment: Germany . UK: International Thomson Publishing, 1997 (Vivienne Shaw).
Bogel, G., Edwards, V. and Wax, M. (Eds). Hungary Since Communism: The Transformation of Business . UK: Macmillan, 1997 (Rumy Husan).     

Estimation in monotone single‐index models

Single‐index models are popular regression models that are more flexible than linear models and still maintain more structure than purely nonparametric models. We consider the problem of estimating the regression parameters under a monotonicity constraint on the unknown link function. In contrast to the standard approach of using smoothing techniques, we review different “non‐smooth” estimators that avoid the difficult smoothing parameter selection. For about 30 years, one has had the conjecture that the profile least squares estimator is an ‐consistent estimator of the regression parameter, but the only non‐smooth argmin/argmax estimators that are actually known to achieve this ‐rate are not based on the nonparametric least squares estimator of the link function. However, solving a score equation corresponding to the least squares approach results in ‐consistent estimators. We illustrate the good behavior of the score approach via simulations. The connection with the binary choice and current status linear regression models is also discussed.     

A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Strategies in Accounting and their Impact on Corporate Compliance

Gabi Ebbers, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2001, e45.50, 263pp. ISBN: 3-631-38245-6     

BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES

LAW OF EMPLOYMENT Norman N. Selwyn UNFAIR DISMISSAL CASES John E. McGlyne REFERENCE BOOKS: A Bibliography of the Literature on British and Irish Labour Law B. A. Hepple, J. M. Neeson and Paul O'Higgins REFERENCE BOOKS: I.P.M. Bibliography Part 1 REFERENCE BOOKS: I.P.M. Bibliography Part 2 REFERENCE BOOKS: The Dictionary of Industrial Relations A. I. Marsh and E. O. Evans REFERENCE BOOKS: A Dictionary of Arbitration and its Terms - a concise encyclopedia of peaceful dispute settlement K. Seide THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Bargaining Without - Boundaries - The Multinational Corporation and International Labour Relations R. J. Flanagan and A. R. Weber THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Nationalism and the Multinational Enterprise: Legal, Economic and Managerial Aspects M. R. Hahlo, J. G. Smith and R. W. Wright THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: The Multinational Corporation and Social Policy Special reference to General Motors in South Africa R. A. Jackson THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Managing Multinational Corporations A. V. Phatak THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: The Dictionary of Industrial Relations A. I. Marsh and E. O. Evans THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: A Dictionary of Arbitration and its Terms - a concise encyclopedia of peaceful dispute settlement K. Seide THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Bargaining Without - Boundaries - The Multinational Corporation and International Labour Relations R. J. Flanagan and A. R. Weber     

Institutional Change of Accounting Systems: The Adoption of a Regime of Adapted International Financial Reporting Standards

Richard Mattessich, New York: Garland Publishing (New Works in Accounting History), 2000, £43.00, xii +179pp. ISBN: 0-8153-3445-1     

Rüegg-Stürm, Johannes/Sander, Stefan: Controlling für Manager Was Nicht-Controller wissen müssen Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2009, 351 S., ISBN: 978-3-593-38627-0, 49,90 €

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Rüegg-Stürm, Johannes/Sander, Stefan: Controlling für Manager Was Nicht-Controller wissen müssen Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2009, 351 S., ISBN: 978-3-593-38627-0, 49,90 €     

Horváth, Péter (Hrsg.): Erfolgreiche Steuerungs- und Reportingsysteme in verbundenen Unternehmen Sch?ffer-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, 327 S., ISBN: 978-3-7910-2897-2, 59,95 €

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Horváth, Péter (Hrsg.): Erfolgreiche Steuerungs- und Reportingsysteme in verbundenen Unternehmen Sch?ffer-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, 327 S., ISBN: 978-3-7910-2897-2, 59,95 €     

Books Reviews

Legge, Karen. Human Resource Management. Rhetorics and Realities . Macmillan Press, 1995, pp. xviii + 385 (Keith Sisson).
Joss, Richard and Kogan, Maurice. Advancing Quality: Total Quality Management in the National Health Service . Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995, pp. 215 (Alan Tuckman).
Von Krogh, G. and Roos, J. Organizational Epistemology . New York: St Martin's Press, 1995, pp. 214, ISBN 0-312-12498-8 (pb) (Robert Chai).
Caves, Richard E. Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis (2nd Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature, 1996, pp. 322, £14.95 (pb), ISBN 0 521 47858 8 (Peter Buckley).
Prais, S. J. Productivity, Education and Training. An International Perspective . The National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xiv + 138 (Sonia C. Carey).
Scarbrough, Harry (Ed.). The Management of Expertise . London: Macmillan, 1996, £14.99 (pb), 0-333-56870-2 (Andrew Sturdy).
Undy, R., Fosh, P., Morris, H., Smith, P. and Martin, R. Managing the Unions: The Impact of Legislation on Trade Unions' Behaviour . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. xvii + 318, £35 (hb) (John Kelly).
Wahl, Anna. Men's Perceptions of Women in Management . Fritzes: Stockholm, 1995, ISBN 38-30722-7 (Sandra Fielden).     

BOOK NOTES

COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Collective Bargaining in Industrialised Market Economies Productivity and Law by R. A. Farnsworth Collective Bargaining and the Challenge of New Technology Productivity Agreements and Australian Wage Determination by P. A. Riach and W. A. Howard Industrial Management: East and West Papers from the International Economic Association Conference on Labour Productivity, 1971. A. Silberston and F. Seton (ed.) CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: Employees Benefits Today - a survey of attitudes and company practice by H. Marlis Employee Benefits in Europe - an international survey of state and private schemes in 16 countries by D. Callurd Holidays and Hours of Work in the European Community by A. Barry INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Power Sharing in Industry - a practical guide to employee participation in company operations by I. Macbeath Workers’ Participation in Industry by M. Poole WOMEN IN EMPLOYMENT: What to do about Equal Pay for Women by G. L. Buckingham Equal Opportunity and Equal Pay - a review of objectives, problems and progress by A. J. Mepham Exploitation from 9-5: Report of the Twentieth Century Task Force on Women and Employment Pathways to Work. Unemployment among Black Teenage Females by P. A. Wallace GOVERNMENT-INDUSTRY RELATIONS: Big Business and Government; the new disorder by N. Abraham Intervention in the Mixed Economy - the evolution of British Industrial Policy 1964-72 by S. Young with A. V. Lowe INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN AFRICA: Men and Management in Contemporary Africa by C. C. Onyemelukwe Proletarians and African Capitalism. The Kenyan Case, 1960-1972 by R. Sandbrook     

Correction to: Entry regulations and optimal prize allocation in parallel contests

Review of Economic Design - A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-021-00250-x     

Books Reviews

Williamson, O. E. (Ed.). Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond, Expanded Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. pp. 268, £14.50 pb (Michael Rowlinson). Boisot, Max H. Information Space. A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. pp. 550, ISBN 0-415-11490-X (Nathalie N. Mitev). Tweedale, Geoffrey. Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Technology in Sheffield 1743--1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. pp. xiv, 436 (Elisabeth Wilson). Orlikowski, Wanda, J., Walsham, Geoff, Jones, Matthew R. and Degross, Janice, I. (Eds). Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work. London: Chapman Hall, 1996. pp. 443, ISBN 0-412-64010-4 (Richard Hull). Scrivens, Ellie. Accreditation: Protecting the Professional or the Consumer? Buckingham: Open University Press (Jenny Lodge).     

The Murphy-Kirk-Beresford Correspondence 1982-1996: Commentary on the Development of Financial Accounting Standards

Robert J. Bricker and Gary J. Previts (eds) (Foreword by Eugene Glem), Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought, Volume 5 Oxford: JAI (Elsevier Science), 2002, $85.00, e85.00, 223pp. ISBN: 0-7623-0834-6     

Research Method and Methodology in Finance and Accounting (2nd edn)

Bob Ryan, Robert W. Scapens and Michael Theobald, London: Thomson, 2002, £21.59, 240pp. ISBN: 186-1528-817     

BOOK REVIEWS and BOOK NOTES

Book reviews in this article: GROUP PROCESS AND PRODUCTIVITY: by Ivan D. Steiner WILL THORNE: CONSTRUCTIVE MILITANT: A study in New Unionism and New Politics by Giles and Lisanne Radice INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Key Skills by Ed. Coker and Geoffrey Stuttard (Eds). INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Organized Worker: by Tony Topham. INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Activist's Handbook: by Bob Houlton. INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: Statistics for Bargainers: by Karl Hedderwick INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: Calculating: by Joyce Bill Hutton. JESSE BOOT OF BOOTS THE CHEMISTS: by Stanley Chapman TRAINING IN INDUSTRY: THE MANAGEMENT OF LEARNING: by Bernard M. Bass and James A. Vaughan. ORGANISATION DESIGN: An analytical approach to the structuring of organisation by Derek Newman. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE WORKER-OWNED FIRM: A study of twenty-one plywood companies in the Pacific Northwest by Carl J. Bellas. SOCIOLOGY and INDUSTRIAL LIFE: by J. E. T. Eldridge. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Attitudes to Price Increases and Pay Claims by H. Behrend. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Management and Unions - the theory and reform of industrial relations: by A. Flanders. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Coming to Terms with Trade Unions - Six case studies in Collective Bargaining Strategy: by W. E. J. McCarthy A. S. Collier. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Managers and Shop Stewards - shop floor revolution: by A. I. Marsh. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Manpower and Pay in Retail Distribution: Distributive Trades E.D.C., National Economic Development Office BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Collective Agreements - a guide to their Drafting: by J. C. Ramsey in association with J. M. Hill. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Socialising the Company by D. R. Allan. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: The new Unionism - the case for Workers Control by K. Coates and T. Topham.     

A Note on the Regularized Approach to Biased 2SLS Estimation with Weak Instruments

The presence of weak instruments is translated into a nearly singular problem in a control function representation. Therefore, the ‐norm type of regularization is proposed to implement the 2SLS estimation for addressing the weak instrument problem. The ‐norm regularization with a regularized parameter O(n) allows us to obtain the Rothenberg (1984) type of higher‐order approximation of the 2SLS estimator in the weak instrument asymptotic framework. The proposed regularized parameter yields the regularized concentration parameter O(n), which is used as a standardized factor in the higher‐order approximation. We also show that the proposed ‐norm regularization consequently reduces the finite sample bias. A number of existing estimators that address finite sample bias in the presence of weak instruments, especially Fuller's limited information maximum likelihood estimator, are compared with our proposed estimator in a simple Monte Carlo exercise.     

A bivariate infinitely divisible law for modeling the magnitude and duration of monotone periods of log‐returns

The focus of this article is modeling the magnitude and duration of monotone periods of log‐returns. For this, we propose a new bivariate law assuming that the probabilistic framework over the magnitude and duration is based on the joint distribution of (X,N), where N is geometric distributed and X is the sum of an identically distributed sequence of inverse‐Gaussian random variables independent of N. In this sense, X and N represent the magnitude and duration of the log‐returns, respectively, and the magnitude comes from an infinite mixture of inverse‐Gaussian distributions. This new model is named bivariate inverse‐Gaussian geometric ( in short) law. We provide statistical properties of the model and explore stochastic representations. In particular, we show that the is infinitely divisible, and with this, an induced Lévy process is proposed and studied in some detail. Estimation of the parameters is performed via maximum likelihood, and Fisher's information matrix is obtained. An empirical illustration to the log‐returns of Tyco International stock demonstrates the superior performance of the law compared to an existing model. We expect that the proposed law can be considered as a powerful tool in the modeling of log‐returns and other episodes analyses such as water resources management, risk assessment, and civil engineering projects.