Book Reviews

Books review in this article: Human Resource Management: A Critical Text John Storey (Ed.) The Future of the Trade Unions Robert Taylor Human Resource Management In Europe Paul S. Kirkbride (Ed.)     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Macmillan Directory of Multinationals (two volumes) D. C. Stafford and R. H. A. Purkis (eds.) Small Business and Society David Goss The Re-emergence of Small Enterprises W. Sengenberger, G. W. Loveman & M. J. Piore (eds) The British Trade Union Directory W. Maksymiw, Ed. Trade Union Policy and the Unemployed Paul Lewis Managing to Discriminate David L. Collinson, David Knights and Margaret Collinson Butterworths Employment Law Handbook , (5th Ed.) Peter Wallington Employer's Liability at Common Law , (11th Ed.) John Munkman Bowers on Employment Law J. Bowers Butterworths Employment Law Guide C. Osman, (Ed.) Work Organisations Paul Thompson and David McHugh The Impact of Economic Democracy Profit-Sharing and Employee Shareholding Schemes Michael Poole and Glenville Jenkins Women in the Japanese Workplace Mary Saso     

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Book reviewed in this article: Industrial Relations in the New Europe A. Ferner and R. Hyman (Eds.) Bulletin of Comparative Industrial Relations. No. 23. 1992 Special Issue. Workers' Participation: Influence on Management Decision-Making by Labour in the Private Sector R. Blanpain (Ed.) Technology and Work in German Industry N. Altmann, C. Koehler and P. Meil (Eds.) Training and Enterprise Councils: The Story So Far, Policy Studies Special Issue Economic Decline in Modern Britain: The Shipbuilding Industry, 1890–1970 Edward H. Lorenz The Evolution of Public Management: Concepts and Techniques for the 1990s Colin Duncan (Ed.) The Wapping Dispute Suellen M. Littleton Unfair Dismissal Malcolm Mead Longman Justice in Dismissal Hugh Collins Clarendon Press Life and work history analyses: Qualitative and quantitative developments S. Dex (Ed.) Women and Japanese Management: Discrimination and Reform Alice Lam Routledge     

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Appraising Capital Works . By E. J. Broster
Financial Accounting and Control . By C. C. Magee
Cost and Management Accountancy for Students . J. Batty (Ed.)
Developments in Management Accountancy . J. Batty (Ed.)
Basic Marketing: Programmed Text and Cases . By Robert S. Raymond
Chemical Market Research . N. H. Giragosian (Ed.)
The Human Equation in Marketing Research . By Dietz Leonhard
Personal Selling: Behaviourial Science Readings and Cases . James H. Bearden (Ed.)
Advertising and the Community . Alexander Wilson (Ed.)
Marketing Management for Europe . By C. S. Deverell
Corporate Planning . By John Argenti
Corporate Planning in Industry . By Aris Presanis
Technological Forecasting and Corporate Strategy . By Gordon Wills, B. Taylor
Basic Operational Research . By P. G. Moore
The Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Operational Research . D. B. Hertz and J. Melese (Ed.)
Linear Programming . By K. Williams
Operational Research French–English English–French Vocabulary . A. L. Oliver (Ed.)
An Exercise in Redeployment . By Ron Thomas
Decision Making . By R. A. Chapman
Decision Making in Poverty Programmes . By Melvin Herman and Michael Munk
Theories of the Bargaining Process . By Alan Coddington
Creative Person and Creative Process . By Frank Barron
Corporate Excellence through Grid Organization Development . A Systems Approach.
Managerial Control Through Communication . By G. T. Vardaman and C. C. Halterman
Management Information and Systems . By A. G. Donald
Management in the Textile Industry . The Textile Institute
The Management of Computer Programming . By C. P. Lecht
Computers for Management . By Humphrey Sturt and Ronald Yearsley
The Numerate Manager . By Fred Keay     

BOOKS

Book Reviewed in this article: CHANGING COURSES A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT Stephan Schmidheiny LAND DELIVERY FOR LOW INCOME GROUPS IN THIRD WORLD CITIES Robert-Jan Baken and Jan van der Linden Avebury WHAT's NEW IN ECONOMICS? John Maloney STEADY STATE ECONOMICS (Second Edition with new essays) Herman E. Daly BUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN CASEBOOK John Donaldson STRUCTURE, CONDUCT AND PERFORMANCE Leonard W. Weiss (David B. Audretsch and Hideki Yamawaki - Eds.) THE COST OF EUROPE Patrick Minford (Ed.) ENERGY DEMAND: EVIDENCE AND EXPECTATIONS David Hawdon (Ed.) THE INFORMAL ECONOMY IN FRANCE Jan Windebank Avebury     

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Book reviewed in this article: The State and the Labor Market Samuel Rosenberg (Ed) Key Issues in Business Ethics John Donaldson The Quest for Productivity: A Case Study of Fawley after Flanders Bruce W. Ahlstrand A History of the National Graphical Association John Gennard The Blackcoated Worker: Second Edition David Lockwood Unpacking the Fashion Industry: Gender, Racism and Class Production Annie Phizacklea Gendered Jobs and Social Change Rosemary Crompton and Kay Sanderson Consett Iron 1840 to 1980: a study in industrial location Kenneth Warren Assessment and Selection in Organisations Peter Herriot (Ed.)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Future of European Social Policy (second revised edition) Lammy Betten (Ed.) Employment Rights in Britain and Europe: Selected Papers in Labour Law Lord Wedderburn Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility: Austria Ewald Walterskirchen Japan and the Global Economy: Issues and Trends in the 1990s Jonathan Morris (Ed.) Growth through Competition, Competition through Growth: Strategic Management and the Economy in Japan Hiroyuki Odagiri Training at Work: a Critical Analysis of Policy and Practice Jeff Hyman The Impact of Demographic Change on Training-A Cross European Comparison Nina West Contemporary British Industrial Relations Sid Kessler and Fred Bayliss Rethinking Labour Management Relations, The case for Arbitration Christopher J. Bruce and Jo Carby Hall The New Politics of British Trade Unionism , David Marsh The History of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, Volume I parts 1 and 2, 1870–1911 From Forerunners to Federation; 1912–1922 From Federation to Amalgamation Ken Coates and Tony Topham (Eds.) An Introduction to Industrial Relations Michael P Jackson In the Way of Women: Men's resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations Cynthia Cockburn Working in Hotels Roy C. Wood Engineers and Professional Self-Regulation: from the Finniston Committee to the Engineering Council Grant Jordan     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
THE NEW CLASSICAL MACRO-ECONOMICS Kevin D.Hoover.
REAL WORLD ECONOMICS Christopher Huhne Macmillan.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN APPLIED ECONOMICS Graham Bird and Heather Bird.
FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH Phyllis Dean (Ed.) .
MONETARISM AND THE KEYNESIANS Christopher Johnson [Ed.]
BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND POLICIES IN THE 1990s Ken Coutts, Wynne Godley, Bob Rowthorn and Gennaro Zezza.
ECONOMIC PLANNING IN TRANSITION; SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING IN POSTSOCIALIST AND CAPITALIST SOCIETIES Janos Kovacs and Bruno Dallago (Eds.)
THE HISTORY OF ECONOMETRIC IDEAS Mary S. Morgan.
FIGHTING THE WAR OF IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA John Goodman and Ramona Marotz-Baden (Eds.)
THE ROAD TO A FREE ECONOMY, SHIFTING FROM A SOCIALIST SYSTEM: THE CASE OF HUNGARY Janos Kornai.     

Books in Review

Book reviewed in this article:
POLITICAL MACRO-ECONOMICS Keizo Nagatani
LLOYDS BANK ANNUAL REVIEW CHANGING EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEMS Christopher Johnson (Ed.)
CLASSICAL ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN ANALYSIS IN THE TRADITION OF ADAM SMITH Gavin Reid Basil     

CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY IN ECONOMICS

Books reviewed in this article:
William A. Barnett, John Geweke and Karl Shell (eds) (1989) Economic Complexity: Chaos, Sunspots, Bubbles and Nonlinearity
W. A. Brock and A. G. Malliaris (1989) Differential Equations, Stability and Chaos in Dynamic Economics
Carl Chiarella (1990) The Elements of a Nonlinear Theory of Economic Dynamics
Tönu Puu (1989) Nonlinear Economics Dynamics
Kumaraswamy Velupillai (ed.) (1990) Nonlinear and Multisectoral Macrodynamics     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZE ENTERPRISES Arnaldo Bagnasco and Charles Sabel (eds.)
THE SIGH Of THE GOLDEN GRASSHOPPER. A Biography of Sir Thomas Gresham Perry E. Gresham with Carol Jose
THIS WILL HURT: THE RESTORATION OF VIRTUE AND CIVIC ORDER Digby Anderson (Ed.)
PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES: THE MARKET PROVISION OF SOCIAL SERVICES Fred Foldvary
GREEN INC.: A GUIDE TO BUSINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Frances Cairncross     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Global Japanisation?: The Transformation of the Labour Process Tony Elger & Chris Smith (Eds.) Organized Labor in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Comparative Study of Trade Unions in Nine Countries Stephen Frenkel (Ed.) Human Resource Management on the Pacific Rim: Institutions, Practices and Attitudes Larry F. Moore and P. Devereaux Jennings (Eds.) Management in China during the Age of Reform John Child Industrial Restructuring in Mexico: Corporate Adaptation, Technological Innovation, and Changing Patterns of Industrial Relations in Monterrey María de los Angeles Pozas. Translated by Aníbal Yáñez The Struggle for Australian Industrial Relations Braham Dabscheck Irish Industrial Relations in Practice Thomas V. Murphy and William K. Roche (Eds.)     

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Cooper, C. L. (Ed.) Learning from others in groups: Experiential learning approaches .
Millar, J. British management versus German management
Golembriewski, R. T. Approaches to planned change Parts I and 2: Orienting perspectives and micro level interventions .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article Brooks, Edmund Organizational Change: The Managerial Dilemma London Salaman, Graeme and Thompson, Kenneth (Eds.) Control and Ideology in Organizations Chapman, Richard A. and Greenaway, J. R. The Dynamics of Administrative Reform Currie, Robert Industrial Politics Ivar Berg Industrial Sociology Neustadt, R. E. and Fineberg Ward, J. T. and Fraser, W. Hamish Workers and Employers Burns, Thomas J. (Ed.) Behavioral Experiments in Accounting II Singleton, W. T. (Ed.) The Study of Real Skills: Volume I, The Analysis of Practical Skills Stout, Jr. Russell, Management or Control? The Organizational Challenge Bloomington, Ill Wild, Ray Production and Operations Management: Principles and Techniques Skinner, Wickham Manufacturing in the Corporate Strategy New York Van Dam, Cees and Stallaert, L. (Eds.) Trends in Business Ethics. Nijenrode Studies in Business, Vol. 3 De George, Richard T. and Pichler, Joseph A. (Eds.) Ethics, Free Enterprise and Public Policy New York Da vies, Paul and Freedland, Mark Labour Law: Text and Materials     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review in this Article Morgan , Gareth (Ed.) Beyond Method: Strategies For Social Research. Earl , Michael J. (Ed.) Perspectives On Management - A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Karabadse , Andrew The Politics of Management. Poole , M., Brown , W., Rubery , J., Sisson , K., Tarling , R. and Wilkinson , F. Industrial Relations In the Future: Trends and Possibilities In Britain Over the Next Decade. Bradley , Keith and Gelb , Alan Worker Capitalism: the New Industrial Relations. Durcan , J. W., Mccarthy , W. E. J. and Redman , G. P. Strikes In Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946-73.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Employment Security and Labor Market Behavior Christoph F. Buechtemann (Ed.) The Survival of the Danish Model. A historical sociological analysis of the Danish system of collective bargaining Jesper Due, Jørgen Steen Madsen, Carsten Strøby Jensen, Lars Kjerulff Petersen. The Equality Dilemma. Reconciling working life and family life, viewed in an equality perspective. The Danish example , Søren Carlsen and Jørgen Elm Larsen (Eds.) International and Comparative Industrial Relations. A Study of Industrialised Market Economies, (second edition) G. Bamber & R. Lansbury (Eds.) Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family Ben Fine     

ON MATTERS METHODOLOGICAL IN ECONOMICS

Books reviewed in this article: Lawrence A. Boland (1989) The Methodology of Economic Model Building: Methodology after Samuelson. J. C. Glass and W. Johnson (1989) Economics: Progression, Stagnation or Degeneration? Arjo Klamer, Donald N. McCloskey and Robert M. Solow (eds.) (1989) The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric. Brian J. Loasby (1989) The Mind and Method of the Economist: A Critical Appraisal of Major Economists in the 20th Century. John Pheby (1988) Methodology and Economics: A Critical Introduction.     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: THE AIRPORT BUSINESS Rigas Doganis A THEORY OF HUMAN NEED Len Doyal and Ian Gough THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF PAUL DAVIDSON: VOL.1: MONEY & EMPLOYMENT; VOL.2: INFLATION, OPEN ECONOMIES & RESOURCES Louise Davidson (Ed) URBAN TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS Kenneth A. Small TRASHING THE PLANET: HOW SCIENCE CAN HELP US DEAL WITH ACID RAIN, DEPLETION OF THE OZONE AND NUCLEAR WASTE Dixy Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo MONEY, INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENTS: THE ROLE OF MONEY IN THE ECONOMY David Gowland RETHINKING THE ENVIRONMENT Russell Lewis et al THE METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMIC MODEL BUILDING: METHODOLOGY AFTER SAMUELSON Lawrence A. Boland REFLECTIONS; SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF ENOCH POWELL Rex Collings (Ed.) ECONOMETRICS: ALCHEMY OR SCIENCE? David F. Hendry THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND PUBLIC POLICY, 1941–1958 John Fforde TRUTH VERSUS PRECISION IN ECONOMICS Thomas Mayer ECONOMICS OF MONETARY INTEGRATION Paul de Grauwe     

Books in Review

Book reviewed in this article:
THE RISE AND FALL OF FLEET STREET Charles Wintour
LIMITING EXCHANGE RATE FLEXIBILITY: THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM Francesco Giavazzi & Alberto Giovannini
ROGERNOMICS: RESHAPING NEW ZEALAND'S ECONOMY Simon Walker (Ed.)
WORKING FOR PROFIT: THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF CALCULATION IN AN ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes & W. W. Sharrock
MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND STABILIZATION POLICY Manchester University Press
FISCAL POLICY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF CEDRIC SANDFORD David Collard (ed.)
EQUALITY IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE Antony Flew
PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS: on the Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry Subroto Roy     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bargaining Power Roderick Martin Labour Markets Under Trade Unionism: Employment, Wages and Hours Seniority Wage System in the Far East Byung Whan Kim Avebury/Gower 1992 Through Jaundiced Eyes-How the Media View Organized Labor William J. Puette; Participation in Public Policy-Making: the Role of Trade Unions and Employers' Associations Tiziano Treu (Ed.) Fordism and Flexibility: Divisions and Change . N. Gilbert, R. Burrows and A. Pollert (Eds.) Economic Democracy and Financial Participation: A comparative study Daryl D'Art, Routledge The Changing US Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis James M. Rubenstein Routledge Feminising the Market: Women's Pay and Employment in the European Community Jane Pillinger Macmillan Dual-Earner Families: International Perspectives Suzan Lewis, Dafna N. Izraeli and Helen Hootsmans (eds.) Development in the Management of Human Resources John Storey Blackwell