The Law of the Labour Market — Industrialization,Employment, and Legal Evolution – Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson

Books reviewed: The Law of the Labour Market — Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution by Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xxv + 380 pp., ISBN 0 19 8152817, £60.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed: Capitalist Diversity and Change: Recombinant Governance and Institutional Entrepreneurs by Colin Crouch. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, 184 pp., ISBN 0 19 928647 7, £50.00.
Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches edited by David Coates. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2005, xi + 300 pp., ISBN 1 4039 1886 4, £60.00.
Review by Gregory Jackson
King’s College London
Richard Deeg
Temple University Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights by David Brody. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2005, x + 166 pp., ISBN 0 252 07246 4, US$20.00, paper.
The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939 by Larry G. Gerber. University of Northern Illinois Press, DeKalb, 2005, viii + 212 pp., ISBN 0 87580 347 4, US$40.00.
Review by Howell John Harris
University of Durham The Politics of Working Life by Paul Edwards and Judy Wajcman. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xvi + 316 pp., ISBN 0 19 927190 9, £60.00.
Review by Chris Clegg
Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield Employment, Trade Union Renewal and the Future of Work — The Experience of Work and Organisational Change edited by Paul Stewart. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005, xi + 290 pp., ISBN 1 4039 12270, £60.00.
Review by Kirsty Newsome
University of Strathclyde Labour Laws and Global Trade by Bob Hepple. Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, OR, 2005, xxiii + 302 pp., ISBN 1 84113 160 1, £30.00; ISBN 1 84113 187 3, £20.00, paper.
Review by William B. Gould IV
Stanford Law School A Global Union for Global Workers — Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping by Nathan Lillie. Routledge, New York and London, 2006, vii + 209 pp., ISBN 0 415 97747 9, £45.00.
Review by Harold Lewis
General Secretary of the ITF, 1977–1993 Employment Relations and the Health Service — The Management of Reforms by Stephen Bach. Routledge, Abingdon, 2004, x + 239 pp., ISBN 0 415362997, £65.00.
Review by Maria Koumenta
London School of Economics Employment Relations in the Hospitality and Tourism Industries by Rosemary Lucas. Routledge, London and New York, 2004, xx + 306 pp., ISBN 0415297125, £23.99, paper.
Review by Peter Haynes
University of Auckland Critical Management Studies: A Reader edited by Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, ix + 437 pp., ISBN 0 19 928608 6, £24.99, paper.
Review by Carl Rhodes
University of Technology Sydney Emotions in Organizational Behavior edited by Charmine E. J. Härtel, Wilfred J. Zerbe and Neal M. Ashkanasy. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey and London, 2005, xxv + 425 pp., ISBN 1 8058 5098 8, US$99.95, Special Prepaid Price US$49.95.
Review by Ginka Toegel
London School of Economics     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, The United States, and Japan by Kathleen Thelen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, xv + 336 pp., ISBN 0 521 54674 5, £18.99.
Agents of Change: Crossing the Post‐industrial Divide by Charles Heckscher, Michael Maccoby, Rafael Ramírez and Pierre‐Eric Tixier. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, ix + 237 pp., ISBN 0 19 926175 X, £22.50, paper.
Reviewed by David Marsden
London School of Economics The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations: Events, Ideas, and the IIRA by Bruce E. Kaufman. International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004, xxv + 720 pp., ISBN 92‐2‐114153‐5, $74.95.
Reviewed by Sanford M. Jacoby
University of California Los Angeles Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise? edited by Susan Fernie and David Metcalf. Routledge, London, 2005, xvii + 268 pp., ISBN 0 415 28412 0, £21.99, paper.
Reviewed by John Pencavel
Department of Economics, Stanford University Strategic Unionism and Partnership: Boxing or Dancing? edited by Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, xxiii + 362 pp., ISBN 1 1403917566, £55.00.
Reviewed by Miguel Martinez Lucio
Bradford University School of Management Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 2004, xii + 278 pp., ISBN 0‐674‐01665‐3, £16.95.
Reviewed by Simon Deakin
Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge The Economics of Affirmative Action edited by Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark. An Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2004, xxxii + 688 pp., ISBN 1 84376 117 3, £175.00.
Reviewed by Karen Mumford
University of York Welfare for the Unemployed in Britain and Germany: Who Benefits? by Frances McGinnity. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2004, x + 228 pp., ISBN 1 84376 220 X, £55.00.
Reviewed by Malcolm Sawyer
University of Leeds The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy by Philip Brown and Anthony Hesketh with Sarah Williams. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, x + 278 pp., ISBN 0 19 926954 8, £18.00, paper.
Reviewed by Phoebe Moore
University of Manchester     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Employment with Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice by John W. Budd. ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2004, xiv + 263 pp., ISBN 0 8014 42087, US$39.95/£22.95.
Reviewed by Laurie Hunter
School of Business and Management, University of Glasgow Workplace Justice Without Unions by Hoyt B. Wheeler, Brian S. Klaas and Douglas M. Mahony. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2004, xii + 229 pp., ISBN 0 88099 313 8, $40.00.
Reviewed by Alexander J. S. Colvin
The Pennsylvania State University The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace by Charles J. Morris, with a foreword by Theodore J. St. Antoine. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2005, 315 pp., ISBN 0 8014 4317 2, $35.00/£20.50/EUR28.95.
Reviewed by John W. Budd
University of Minnesota Reorganizing the Rust Belt — An Inside Study of the American Labour Movement by Steven Henry Lopez. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2004, xxii + 292 pp., ISBN 0 520 23280 1, $21.95/£14.95, paper.
Reviewed by Sean Safford
London School of Economics Corporate Governance and Labour Management: An International Comparison edited by Howard Gospel and Andrew Pendleton. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xvi + 384 pp., ISBN 0 19 9263671, £55.00.
Reviewed by Suzanne Konzelmann
Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London European Integration and Industrial Relations: Multi‐level Governance in the Making by Paul Marginson and Keith Sisson. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2004, xxii + 360 pp., ISBN 0333968662, £60.00.
Reviewed by Bob Hancké
London School of Economics and Political Science Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe edited by Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2003, xi + 256 pp., ISBN 1 84376 432 6, £59.95.
Reviewed by Michael Neugart
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) Working Parents and the Welfare State: Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia by Arnlaug Leira. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, vii + 182 pp., ISBN 0 521 57129 4, $65.00/£40.00.
Reviewed by Birgit Pfau ‐Effinger
Institute for Sociology, University of Hamburg Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy by Patricia Adler and Peter Adler. ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2004, xiii + 296 pp., ISBN 0 8014 41897 7, $49.95/£29.95, paper.
Reviewed by Dennis Nickson
Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde How Political Parties Respond: Interest Aggregation Revisited edited by Kay Lawson and Thomas Poguntke. Routledge, London and New York, 2004, viii + 271 pp., ISBN 0 415 34797 1, £65.00.
Reviewed by Kerstin Hamann
Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida Cross‐cultural Management — Foundations and Future edited by Dean Tjosvold and Kwok Leung. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2003, viii + 180 pp., ISBN 0 7546 1881 1, £45.00.
Reviewed by Mary Logan
London School of Economics New Frontiers of Democratic Participation at Work edited by Michael Gold. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2003, xv + 236 pp., ISBN 0 75460924 3, £49.95.
Reviewed by Jeff Hyman
University of Aberdeen     

The regional character of Asian multinational enterprises

In recent issues of this Journal a debate has raged concerning the appropriate nature of academic research in the Asia Pacific region. While we support the desire for both rigor and regional relevance in this research, we wish to demonstrate a strong commonality between the performance of large Asian firms and others from Europe and North America. This prompts us to question the need for a new theory of the MNE based on the experience of Asian firms. Like their counterparts elsewhere, the large Asian firms mostly operate on an intra-regional basis. While in the literature it has been assumed that the path to success for Asian firms is globalization, we show that the data supporting this is confined to a handful of unrepresentative case studies. We also present a bibliometric analysis which shows an overwhelming case study sample selection bias in academic studies towards this small number of unrepresentative cases.

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Marx's Revenge by Meghnad Desai. Verso, London and New York, 2002, xi + 372 pp, ISBN 1‐8598‐4644‐0, £19/$27.
Reviewed by Andrew Glyn
University of Oxford
Bob Sutcliffe
Bilbao United We Stand: A History of Britain's Trade Unions by Alastair J. Reid. Allen Lane, London, 2004, xvii + 471 pp., ISBN 0‐7139‐9758‐3, £25.
Reviewed by David Metcalf
London School of Economics Personnel Economics edited by Edward P. Lazear and Robert McNabb, 2 vols. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., 2004, 1040 pp., ISBN 1‐8406‐4892‐9, £240.
Reviewed by Martin J. Conyon
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Industrial Relations in China by Bill Taylor, Chang Kai and Li Qi. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, Mass., 2003, x + 267 pp., ISBN 1‐8406‐4578‐4, £59.95.
Reviewed by Jackie Sheehan
Nottingham University The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America by Dorothy Sue Cobble. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2004, xiv + 315 pp., ISBN 0‐6910‐6993‐X, £19.95.
Reviewed by Mary Margaret Fonow
Arizona State University What's Class Got to Do With It? American Society in the Twenty‐First Century edited by Michael Zweig. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, and London, 2004, vii + 211 pp., ISBN 0‐8014‐4259‐1, $37.50/£21.50; ISBN 0‐8014‐8899‐0, $17.95/£10.50.
Reviewed by Dan Clawson
University of Massachusetts Amherst Creating Cooperation: How States Develop Human Capital in Europe by Pepper D. Culpepper. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2003, xvi + 239 pp, ISBN 0‐8014‐4069‐6, US$35/£23.50.
Reviewed by David Finegold
Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends edited by John Storey. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London/New York, 2004, xiii + 349 pp., ISBN 0‐4153‐1033‐4, £22.99 paper.
Reviewed by Mary S. Logan
London School of Economics Culture and Management in Asia edited by Malcolm Warner. Routledge Curzon, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, 2003, xiii + 266 pp., ISBN 0‐4152‐9727‐3, £65.
Reviewed by Jackie Sheehan
Nottingham University     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America Thomas A. Kochan, Cambridge: MIT Press (2005), 272 pp. $27.95/£18.95 Reviewed by Jeff Hyman University of Aberdeen
HRM and Performance: Achieving Long Term Viability Jaap Paauwe, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004), 274 pp. £24.99 (pb) Reviewed by Stephen Procter University of Newcastle     

The Changing Systems of British Industrial Relations, 1954–1979: Hugh Clegg and the Warwick Sociological Turn

With hindsight, the appointment of Richard Hyman to the Warwick Industrial Relations (IR) group marked a new direction for the academic field. The 1960s Oxford IR group had already begun to borrow from sociological research to better understand and reform the workplace. Alan Fox was emerging as a sociologist. However, it was only after Hugh Clegg had established the Warwick Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU) that workplace sociology became a fully indigenous part of British IR, illustrated by both Hyman's Marxist analysis and Eric Batstone's qualitative factory studies. This article charts the development of Oxford/Warwick social science through the shifting content of the three ‘System’ texts. IR pluralism proved unsuccessful as public policy reform, but Clegg's Warwick research programme fostered a theoretical and empirical engagement between pluralism and radical sociology that revitalized the field. Alongside Clegg's post‐Donovan determination to study management, this new intellectual dynamic facilitated the 1980s emergence of a sceptical and empirical tradition of IR‐shaped HRM in British business schools.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law, by William B. Gould Women and Employment: A Lifetime Perspective (The report of the 1980 DE/OPCS Women and Employment Survey) by Jean Martin and Ceridwen Roberts Sex Discrimination and Equal Opportunity: The Labour Market and Employment Policy, edited by Gunther Schmid and Renate Weitzel White-Collar Proletariat, Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work by R. Crompton and G. Jones The Management Implications of New Information Technology, edited by Nigel Piercy Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism, edited by John H. Goldthorpe Industrial Conflict Resolution in Market Economies: a study of Australia, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan and the USA, edited by T. Hanami and R. Blanpain International Yearbook of Organisational Democracy. Vol 2, International Perspectives on Organisational Democracy, edited by Berhard Wilpert and Arndt Sorge Cooperation at Work: The Mondragon Experience by Keith Bradley and Alan Gelb The View from Cowley: The Impact of Industrialization upon Oxford 1919-39 by R. C. Whiting Unions and politics in Mexico: The case of the automobile industry by Ian Roxborough Labour and Leisure in the Soviety Union by William Moskoff What Do Unions Do? by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff     

Characterizing the Real Roots for P,A, and F with Applications to Environmental Remediation and Home Buying Problems

Historically, work on multiple roots for the internal rate of return (PW = 0) equation focuses on tests for the root's uniqueness and interpreting the meaningfulness of computed roots. Instead, this article starts with problems that consist of P, A, and F cash flows. Then for all possible values of these cash flows, this article develops the boundary conditions for no, single, and multiple real roots of either positive or negative sign.

The results of characterizing these roots are applied to two examples as a foundation for conclusions about those multiple root problems and hypotheses about other problems with multiple roots. The first example is an important class of resource development projects that may require significant expenditures for environmental remediation at the conclusion of operation. The second example of buying versus leasing a home is often used to demonstrate the value of economic analysis to students.     

Asia’s national innovation systems: Institutional adaptability and rigidity in the face of global innovation challenges

This paper explores several features of, and changes in, innovation capacity in Asia. The growth of technology-based industries has been a critically important element of Asian industrial development and has required extensive institutional support for the diffusion of innovation and technological learning. As a number of Asian countries reach the global technological frontier they need to develop new capabilities for creating “radical” innovations in order to sustain their international competitiveness. Using the analytical frameworks of national innovation systems and varieties of capitalism, the paper reviews some systemic and environmental factors encouraging and constraining these developments. By referring to illustrative case studies of institutional evolution within Taiwan’s national innovation system and technological entrepreneurship in Korea, the paper argues that whilst there are major developments in models of innovation support, emulating those found in liberal market economies, enduring cultural legacies can remain influential. It highlights the central importance of social as well as economic institutional adaptation. Some management and policy implications of this attribute are considered, and a future research agenda is proposed.

Work and Life Integration: Organizational,Cultural, and Individual Perspectives – Edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert Work‐Life Balance in the 21st Century – Edited by Diane M. Houston

Books reviewed: Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural, and Individual Perspectives edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ and London, 2005, xxviii + 570 pp., ISBN 0 8058 4616 6, $42.50, paper. Work‐Life Balance in the 21st Century edited by Diane M. Houston. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2005, xv + 271 pp., ISBN 1 4039 2062 1, £50.00.     

Japanese <Emphasis Type="Italic">keiretsu</Emphasis>: Past,present, future

This article reviews major theoretical and empirical work on vertical and horizontal Japanese keiretsu. We first outline the history, characteristics, and strategic and performance implications of each type of business group. We then discuss changes in the Japanese economy during the post-1992 Japanese economic decline and their implications for the persistence and continued benefits of each form of inter-corporate grouping followed by a discussion of empirical findings regarding the continued role of keiretsu in the Japanese economy. The review concludes by exploring areas of future research into the evolution of keiretsu ties and their implications.

NGOs, agricultural technology and the rural poor

A wide range of agencies outside the public and private commercial sectors is involved in generating, introducing, testing and promoting agricultural technology, particularly for small farmers and landless labourers in marginal areas of less developed countries. Their experience is largely undocumented and tends to be overlooked. For specific locations, this paper discusses the significance of different types of voluntary agency vis-à-vis the public sector. Focusing on non-government organizations, it then examines in what roles they can be expected to perform well. Although still fragmentary, the evidence from Africa, Asia and Latin America indicates substantial unexploited complementarities between agencies within and outside the public sector.     

Arbitrary decisions in ranking studies: A commentary on Xu, Yalcinkaya, and Seggie (2008)

This commentary evaluates the problems associated with creating rankings of individuals and institutions in International Business. It argues that the many—potentially arbitrary—decisions involved make the creation of rankings a hazardous affair. I would like to thank the APJM Editor-in-Chief Mike Peng for inviting me to write this commentary, Shichun Xu, Goksel Yalcinkaya and Steven Seggie for providing me with the impetus to articulate some concerns that have been growing in my mind in the past years, and David Griffith for kindly responding to my email when I raised some of the concerns in this commentary. For a full discussion of the broader issue of academics rankings and evaluation, see “Everyone can be a winner: The sense and nonsense of academic rankings” [pending publication].

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Venture capital in China: Past,present, and future

This article reviews the literature on venture capital in China and examines where China’s venture capital industry has been and where it is likely to go in the future. Since the 1980s, venture capital in China has grown steadily alongside the robust national economy. The future is likely to offer even greater opportunities, as entrepreneurs are encouraged and property rights improve. However, there will also be a period of transition as the market continues to mature and as new legal structures and commercial arrangements emerge. Venture capital in China has many interesting differences from that in Western countries. The venture capital industry is shaped by the institutional context and China is no exception to this. This article also examines some specific differences between the system in China and that of the United States. Future prospects for venture capital are also appraised as China continues its transition to a market economy.

BOOK REVIEWS

Innovate: how to gain and sustain competitive advantage . By Mark O'Hare. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988, hardback $15.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Representing Workers: Union Recognition and Membership in Britain edited by Howard Gospel and Stephen Wood. Routledge, London/New York, 2003, xiv + 192 pp., ISBN 0 41528 7286, £19.99 paper. Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study edited by Peter Fairbrother and Charlotte A. B. Yates. Continuum, London/New York, 2003, xxiii + 288 pp., ISBN 0 82645 4372, £35 paper. The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements by Dan Clawson. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY/London, 2003, xii + 235 pp., ISBN 0 80144 1099, $42.50; IBN 0 80148 8702, $18.95 paper. Forces of Labour: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870 by Beverly J. Silver. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2003, xv + 238 pp., ISBN 0 52181 751X, £45 (US$65); ISBN 0 52152 0770, £16.95 (US$23) paper. Workers’ Rights as Human Rights edited by James A. Gross. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY/London, 2003, ISBN 0 80144 0882, £20.95 ($35). Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison by Harish C. Jain, Peter J. Sloane and Frank M. Horwitz. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY/London, 2003, xii + 229 pp., ISBN 0 76560 4523, $66.95; ISBN 0 7656 04531, $26.95 paper. Workplace Equality: International Perspectives on Legislation, Policy and Practice edited by Carol Agocs. Kluwer Law International, The Hague/London/New York, 2002, x + 283 pp., ISBN 9 04118 3438, £58. Unfair Labour Practices: Trade Union Recognition and Employer Resistance by K. D. Ewing, Sian Moore and Stephen Wood. Institute of Employment Rights, London, October 2003, 64 pp., ISBN 0 95437 8148, £6.50 to trade unions and students/£20 to others, paper. Labour Markets, Gender and Institutional Change: Essays in Honour of Günter Schmid edited by Hugh Mosley, Jacqueline O’Reilly and Klaus Schömann. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Glos./Northampton, Mass., 2002, xvii + 382 pp., ISBN 1 84064 8619, £75. Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities by Catherine Hakim. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, xv + 282 pp., ISBN 75463 728X, £45. Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America by Mary Margaret Fonow. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2003, x + 250 pp., ISBN 0 81663 8837, $19.95 paper. Law and Labour Market Regulation in East Asia edited by Sean Cooney, Tim Lindsey, Richard Mitchell and Ying Zhu. Routledge, London/New York, xv + 282 pp., ISBN 0 41522 1684, £60.     

Licencing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition? – Morris Kleiner

Books reviewed: Licencing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition? by Morris Kleiner. Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006, xiii + 183 pp., ISBN 0 88099 285 9, US$40.00; ISBN 0 88099 284 0, US$18.00, paper.