Book reviews

Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA W. Henry Lambright Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 271 pp, £30.00 (hbk), ISBN 0-8019-4902-0.

Managers and Innovation: Strategies for a Biotechnology John Howells London, Routledge, 1994, £40, ISBN 0-415-08590-X.

Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation James Utterback Boston, MA, Harvard University Press, 1994, $24.95, ISBN0-87584-342-5.

Leadership in Action Helmut Mauche McGraw Hill, 1994, £19.95, ISBN 0-07-041041-0.

International Business: Environments and Operationsf John D. Daniels & Lee H. Readbaugh Addison-Wesley, 7th Edn, 1995, 788 pp, £25.95, ISBN 0-201-59293-2.

Intenational Business: A Strategic Managment Approach Alan M. Rugman & Richard M. Hodgetts McGraw-Hill, 1995, 630 pp, £21.95, ISBN 0-07-113635-5.

International Business: Competing in the Global Marketplace Charles W.L. Hill Irwin, 1994, 615 pp, £ 26.95, ISBN 0-256-15682-4.     

Book reviews

Strategic Leaning in Action Tony Grundy London, McGraw-Hill, 1994, 218 pp. ISBN 0-07-707825-X.

The Knowledge-creating Company Ikujiro Nonaka & Hirotaka Takeuchi Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995, 382pp, £24.95 (hbk), ISBV 0-19-509269-4.

The Challenge of the 21st Century: Managing Technology and Ourselves in a Shrinking World Harold A. Linstone with Ian I Mitroff Albay, Ny, State University of New York Press, 1994, 406 pp, $19.95 (hbk) ISBN0-7914-1949-5.

Practical Steps for Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies: How to Achieve a Competitive Advantage Bernard H. Boar New York, John Wiley, 1995, 241 pp, ISBN 0-471-07637-6.

Strategic Innovation: An International Casebook on Strategic Management Charles Baden-Fuller & Martyn Pitt (Eds) London, Routledge, 1996, 461 pp, £16.95 (pbk), ISBN 0-451-12870-6.     

News and notes

New Perspectives on Technology and Organization.

Innovative Banking: Competition and the Management of a New Networks Technology J. Howells &; J . Hines Eds) Ldon, Routledge, 1992, 252pp., £40.00 (hbk), ISB-V 0-415-05941-0. Technology and Organization: Power, Meaning and Design H. Scarborough &; J.M. Corbett London. Routledge. 1992, 178pp., ,£15.00, (pbk), ISBN 0-415-05941-0.

Beyond Partnership-Strategies for Innovation &; Lean Supply Richard Lamming Hemel Hempstead, Prentice-Hall International, 1993, ix + 299pp., £19.95 (hbk).

From Anticipation to Action: A handbook of Strategic Perspective Michel Godet.     

Book Reviews

Louis Baeck. The Mediterranean Tradition in Economic Thought. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. IX, 241. £40. ISBN 0–415–09301–5.

Vivienne Brown. Adam Smith's Discourse. Canonicity, Commerce and Conscience. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 243. £13.99. ISBN 0–415–09593.

Peter Groenewegen (ed.). Feminism and Political Economy in Victorian England. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp. 208. £39.95. ISBN 1–85278–928‐X.

Terence Hutchison. The Uses and Abuses of Economics. Contentious Essays on History and Method. London and New York: Roudedge, 1994. Pp. XIII, 314. £45. ISBN 0–415–09404–6.

Jan Keppler. Monopolistic Competition Theory. Origins, Results, and Implications. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. x, 220. US$45. ISBN 0–8018–4813‐X.

Lars Magnusson (ed.). Evolutionary and Neo‐Schumpeterian Approaches to Economics. Boston, Dordrecht, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Pp. VIII, 326. £74.95. ISBN 0–7923–9385–6.

Alessandro Marzola and Francesco Silva (eds). John Maynard Keynes. Language and Method. Aldershof. Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp. XY 247. £39.95 ISBN 1–85278–923–9.

Ferdinando Meacci. Luigi Einaudi e i Principi del Capitate. Turin: Giappichelli, 1993. Pp. x, 176. IL. 28,000. ISBN 88–348–3093–8.

Gerald M. Meier (ed.). From Classical Economics to Development Economics. New York: St Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 262. US$45. ISBN 0–312–12033–8.

Takashi Negishi. The History of Economics. The Collected Essays of Takashi Negishi, vol. 2. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp. XXIV, 242. £45. ISBN 1–85278–938–7.

Cosimo Perrota and Vitantonio Gioia (eds). Where is Economics Going? Historical Viewpoints. Lecce: Università degli Studi di Lecce and Congedo Editore, 1994. Pp. 131. Price not indicated. ISBN 88–808–6079–8.

Warren J. Samuels, Jeff Biddle and Thomas W. Patchak‐Schuster. Economic Thought and Discourse in the 20th Century. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp. x, 288. £45. ISBN 1–85278–724–4.

Mario Sebastiani. Kalecki and Unemployment Equilibrium. London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. 213, ISBN 0–312–10585–1

John Vint. Capital and Wages. A Lakatosian History of the Wages Fund Doctrine. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp. x, 278. £45. ISBN 1–85278–864‐X.     

Book reviews

Innovation and Industrial Strength in the UK, West Germany, United States and Japan Joan Cox &; Herbert Kriegbaum London, Policy Studies Institute, 1989, 168pp. Industrial Societies After the Stagnation of the 1970s. Taking Stock from an Interdisciplinary Perspective Burkhard Strumpel (ed.) Berlin, de Gruyter, 1989, 313pp.

The Social Basis of the Microelectronics Revolution Alfonso Hernan Molina Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1989, xxi + 260pp., £25.00 h/b (also avail-able in p/b)

Innovation and Technology Transfer in Japan and Europe: Industry-Academic Relations Glynn 0. Philips (assisted by Michael Hughes) London, Routledge, 1990, 282pp.) £45.00

Banking 1992-A Eurostudy Special Report Ian Gillespie (ed.) I,ondon, Eurostudy Publishing, 1990, 162pp., $£60 ($99)     

Book review

Built by Japan: Competitive Straegies of the Japanese Construction Industry, Fumio Hasegawa & Shimizu Group FS New York, John Wiley & amp; Sons, 1988, 204 pp., US$25.00.

Technological Change at Work Ian McLouglin & Jon Clark Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1988, 202 pp., Pb £9.00, Hb £25.00.

Enterprising Innovation: An Alternative Approach Veronica Mole & Dave Elliott London, Frances Pinter, 1987, pp. 180.

Flexible Automation: The Global Diffusion of New Technology in the Engineering Industry Charles Edquist Jacobsson Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988, Hb £35.00.

Expert Systems: Strategic Implications and Applications A. Beerel Chichester, Ellis Horwood Ltd, 1988, 173 pp., £22.50.     

Technology analysis as ancestral ritual and power politics

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing W. Aspray London and Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1990 337, pp., $35 (US).

Science, Technology and Socxety: new directions A. J. Webster London und Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1991, 181 pp.,£35 hbk and £9.99 pbk.     

Book review

Corporate Strategy, Public Policy and New Technologies: Philips and the European Consumer Electronics Industry Xiudian Dai Oxford, Pergamon, 1996, 300 pp, $65.00, ISBN 0-08-042581-X.

Exploring the Black Box N. Rosenberg Cambridge, Cambridge Universip Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-45270-8.

Invention-The Care and Feeding of Ideas N. Weiner Massachusetts, MIT Fress, 1993.

Examining Business Process Reengineering-Current Perspectives and Research Directions G. Burke & J. Peppard (Eds) London, Kogan Page, 1995.     

Book reviews

Routledge Series in Analytical Management Series Editor: D.C. Wilson London and New York, Routledge.

Strategues fir Growth; Maturuity, Recovery and Internationalisation Peter McKiernan London and New York, Routledge, 1992, £35.00. (hbk), ISBN 0-415-07383-9.

Technology and Organisation: Power, Meaning and Design Harry Scarborough & F. Martin Corbett London and New York, Routledge, 1992, £35.000 (hbk), ISBN 0-415-07384-7.

A Strategy of Change; Concepts and Controversies in the Management of Change D. C. Wilson London and New York, Routledge, 1992, £10.99 (pbk), ISBN 0-415-09773-8.

Human Resource Strategies for International Growth Chris Hendry London and New York, Routledge, 1994, £35.00. (hbk), ISBN 0-415-09773-8.

What is Strategy and Does it Matter? Richard Whittington London and New York, Routledge, 1993, £35.00. (hbk), ISBN 0-415-07385-5.

Technological Collaboration in Industry Mark Dodgson London, Routledge, 1993, £40.00 (hbk), ISBN 0-415-08230-7.

Corporate Vision and Rapid Technological Change Peter Swann & Jas Gill London, Routledge, 1993, £37.50 (hbk), ISBN 0-415-09135-7.

Internal Merkets: Bringing the Power of Free Enterprise Inside your Organisation W.E. Halad, A. Germanmayeh and J. Pourdenhad (eds) New York, Wiley, 1993, 301 pp., US$ 34.95.

Strategic Management: A Methodological Approach, 4th edition A.J. Rowe, R.O. Mason, K.E. Dicker, R.B. Mann & R.J. Mocler New York, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-58638-X.

The Management of Scale (Big Organizations, Big Decisions, Big Mistakes) David Collingridge London, Routledge, 1992, £35.00 (hbk), £12.99 (pbk), ISBN 0-415-07856-3.

The Intelligent Enterprise James B. Quinn New York, Free Press, 1992, ISBN 0-02-925615-1.     

Techno‐cultural integration

K. Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy (NY: Viking 1998 ISBN 014028060 X, pp.179).

D. Morris, Vote.com: How Big‐Money Lobbyists and the Media are Losing Their Influence, and the Internet is Giving Power Back to the People (LA: Renaissance Books 1999 ISBN 158063163 0, pp.236).

G. Rochlin, Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1997, ISBN 0691002479, pp.310).     

Book reviews

Japanization at Work Japanization at Work Basubgstoke, MacMillan Press Ltd, 1992, 244 pp, £14.99 (pdk), ISBN 0-333-54575-3.

High Wire Management Risk-taking For Leaders, Innovators and Trailblazers Gene Calvert New York, Jossey Bass, 1993.

Environmental Science for Environmental Management Timothy O'Riordan(ed). Harlow, Longman, 1994, 345 pp, £17.99 (pdk), ISBN 0-582-21-8896.

Organizing Modernity J. Law Oxford, Blackwell, 1994, 223 pp., £12.99 (pdk). £40.00 (hbk), ISBN 0-631-18512-7.     

Middle eastern Hydropolitics: Interpreting constructed knowledge

D. Hillel, Rivers of Eden: the Struggle for Water and the Quest for Peace in the Middle East (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994).

N. Kliot, Water Resources and Conflict in the Middle East (London: Routledge 1994).

G. Shapland, Rivers of Discord: International Water Disputes in the Middle East. (London: Hurst & Company 1997).

M. Sherman, The Politics of Water in the Middle East: An Israeli Perspective on the Hydro‐Political Aspects of the Conflict (London: MacMillan Press 1999).

A. Soffer, Rivers of Fire (Rowman & Littlefield 1999).

A. Wolf, Hydropolitics along the Jordan River: Scarce Water and its Impact on the Arab‐Israeli Conflict (Tokyo: United Nations University Press 1995).     

Review Article

Linda Clarke, Peter de Gijsel & Jörn Janssen (eds) (2000) The Dynamics of Wage Relations in the New Europe (Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic)ISBN 0-7923-7742-7 £83 368 pp.     

Review

Peter Young & Paul Reynolds, The Amnesia of Reform. A Review of Post‐Communist Privatization. London: Adam Smith Research Trust, 1994, 40 pp., p/b.

Michael Kaser, Privatization in the CIS. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995, 62 pp., p/b.     

Book reviews

Technological Risk H. W. Lewis ,Yew York and London, W. W. Norton ,and Company, 1991, xiii+353pp., £15.95.

Towards Global Localisation: the computing and telecommunications industries in Britain and France Philip Cooke, Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw, Olivier Weinstein & Peter Wells with Martine Lamattre & Patrice Grevet London, UCL Press, 1992, 227pp., £30.00 hardback.

A Strategy of Change: concepts and controversies in the management of change David C. Wilson London, Routledge, 1992, 147pp., ISBN 0-4 15-053269, £10.00 pbk.     

Book reviews

New Perspectives on Technology and Organization.

Innovative Banking: Competition and the Management of a New Networks Technology J. Howells & J . Hines Eds) Ldon, Routledge, 1992, 252pp., £40.00 (hbk), ISB-V 0-415-05941-0. Technology and Organization: Power, Meaning and Design H. Scarborough & J.M. Corbett London. Routledge. 1992, 178pp., ,£15.00, (pbk), ISBN 0-415-05941-0.

Beyond Partnership-Strategies for Innovation & Lean Supply Richard Lamming Hemel Hempstead, Prentice-Hall International, 1993, ix + 299pp., £19.95 (hbk).

From Anticipation to Action: A handbook of Strategic Perspective Michel Godet.     

Book review

New Technologies and Work: Capitalist and Socialist Perspectives A. Francis & P. Grootings (Eds) London, Routledge, 1989, 335 pp.

New Technology and Manufacturing Management: Strategic Choices for Flexible Production Systems M. Warner, W. Wobbe & P. Brodner (Eds) Chichester, Wiley, 1990, 265 pp.

The Single European Market and the Information and Communication Technologies Gareth Locksley (Ed.) London and New York, Belhaven Press, 1990, 290 pp., £27.50.

Technology and Competition in the International Telecommunications Industry David Charles, Peter Monk & Ed Sciberras London and New York, Pinter Publishers, 1989, 170 pp., £35.00.

Organising for Manufacturing Innovation: The Case of Flexible Manufacturing Systems Harry Boer Enschede, Febodruk, 1990, 253 pp.

Future Work: Seven Critical Forces Reshaping Work and the Work Force in North America Joseph F. Coates, Jennifer Jarratt & John B. Mahaffie Sun Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass, 1990, 2 vols, 445 pp. & 120 pp., $49.50.

Science, Technology and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany John Gimbel Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1990, 280 pp., £29.50 (hbk).     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade: Can It Be Done? edited by Keith Maskus and John Wilson, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001, pp. xvi, 241.
Reviewed by Arghya Ghosh Too Sensational: On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes, by W. Max Corden, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 274; index.
Reviewed by Sven W. Arndt     

Geographies of nationalist mobilisation

D. Conversi, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilization. London: Charles Hurst; Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997. ISBN 0–87417–278–0.

M. Hechter, Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, with a new introduction and a new appendix by the author. New Brunswick NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 1999. ISBN 0–7685–0475–1.

G.H. Herb and D.H. Kaplan (eds.), Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale. Lanham MD and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. ISBN 0–8476–8467–9.