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Book reviewed in this article: The Future Health Workforce
Celia Davies (ed) HRM and Performance: Achieving Long‐Term Viability
Jaap Paauwe Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends
John Storey (ed)     

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Books reviewed: Kay, Neil, M., Pattern in Corporate Evolution Papadakis, Vassilis and Barwise, Patrick, Strategic Decisions Gourvish, Terence R. and Abé, Etsuo, Review of Japanese Success? British Failure? Comparisons in Business Performance since 1945     

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Aileen McColgan, Just Wages For Women Sandra Fredman, Women and the Law Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull, The Dynamics of Employee Relations Christopher Mabey, Denise Skinner and Timothy Clark, Experiencing Human Resource Management C. Rowley, Human Resource Management in the Asia Pacific Region: Convergence Questioned Michael Poole and Malcolm Warner, The Handbook of Human Resource Management     

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Books reviewed: Governa, Francesca, The Urban Milieu. Territorial Identity in Development Processes Leyshon, Andrew and Nigel Thrift, Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation Carr, Leslie G., ‘Color-blind’ Racism Noin, Daniel and Paul White, Paris Madanipour, Ali, Design of Urban Space: An Inquiry into a Socio-spatial Process Gugler, Josef (ed.), Cities in the Developing World: Issues, Theory and Policy Yeung, Yue-man and D. K. Y. Chu (eds.), Guangdong: Survey of a province undergoing Rapid Change Healey, Patsy, Abdul Khakee, Alain Motte and Barrie Needham, Making Strategic Spatial Plans. Innovation in Europe     

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Books reviewed in this article: Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Cities: Reimagining the Urban Elizabeth Wilson, The Contradictions of Culture: Cities, Culture, Women Edmundo Werna, Combating Urban Inequalities: Challenges for Managing Cities in the Developing World Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog, Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after the Rio Declaration Ian Borden, Joe Kerr and Jane Rendell, with Alicia Pivaro (eds.), The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space Michaela Hordijk, Of Dreams and Deeds. The Role of Local Initiatives for Community Based Environmental Management in Lima, Peru     

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Books reviewed: Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, (eds.) Cities for citizens: planning and the rise of civil society in a global age Eric C. Schneider, Vampires, dragons and Egyptian kings: youth gangs in post‐war New York Erhard Berner, Defending a place in the city: localities and the struggle for urban land in Metro Manila Ali Madanipour, Tehran: the making of a metropolis Linda Tuhiwai‐Smith, Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples Nicholas Low and Brendan Glee, Justice, society and nature: an exploration of political ecology Rosa Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambiniand and Cathy Bryan, (eds.) Cyberdemocracy: technology, cities and civic networks Maf Smith, John Whitelegg and Nick Williams, Greening the built environment Michael V. McGinnis, Bioregionalism Andrew Leyshon, David Matless and George Revill, (eds.) The place of music     

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Books reviewed: H. Barton, (ed.) Sustainable communities: the potential for eco‐neighbourhoods J.A. Elliot, An introduction to sustainable development M. Kenny, and J. Meadowcroft, Planning sustainability D. Satterthwaite, The Earthscan reader in sustainable cities Doreen Massey, John Allen and Steve Pile, (eds.) City worlds Steve Pile, Christopher Brook and Gerry Mooney (eds.) Unruly cities?: order/disorder John Allen, Doreen Massey and Michael Pryke (eds.) Unsettling cities: movement/settlement Klaus Ronneberger, Stephen Lanz and Walther Jahn Die Stadt als Beute Michael Edwards, Future positive: international co‐operation in the 21st century Nicole May, Pierre Veltz, José Landrieu and Thérèse Spector, (eds.) La ville éclatée Ivan Szelenyi, (ed.) Privatizing the land. Rural political economy in post‐communist societies Yue‐man Yeung, (ed.) Urban development in Asia: retrospect and prospect Andrew Herod, Gearoid O Tuathail and Susan Roberts, (eds.) An unruly world? Globalization, governance and geography Peter Ennals, and Deryck W. Holdsworth, Homeplace. The making of the Canadian dwelling over three centuries Anastasia Loukaitou‐Sideris, and Tridib Banerjee, Urban design downtown: poetics and politics of form Cecile Jackson, and Ruth Pearson, (eds.) Feminist visions of development: gender analysis and policy     

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This article notes some patterns of diversity as well as some moves towards harmonization of industrial relations arrangements and that there are certain parallel trends in European countries. It examines developments affecting unions, employers and the state as well as the changing approaches to collective bargaining. It goes on to discuss the increasing impact of the European Union (formerly European Community) and it concludes that, rather than finding much convergence, there are continuing and significant differences between European countries.     

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Books reviewed: Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise?
Susan Fernie and David Metcalf (eds)
Routledge, 2005, 268 pp., £21.99
Reviewed by Miguel Martinez Lucio
University of Bradford School of Management, UK Development of Culture, Welfare States and Women’s Employment in Europe
Birgit Pfau‐Effinger
Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, 217 pp., £49.95
Reviewed by Maria Hudson
Policy Studies Institute, UK Strategic Unionism and Partnership. Boxing or Dancing?
Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xxiii + 362 pp., £55.00
Reviewed by Mark Stuart
University of Leeds, UK Labour Laws and Global Trade
Bob Hepple
Hart Publishing, 2005, 328 pp., £20.00
Reviewed by A. C. L. Davies
Oxford University, UK How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan
Kathleen Thelen
Cambridge University Press, 2004, 239 pp., £50.00
Reviewed by Irena Grugulis
Bradford University School of Management, UK     

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The aim of this study is to examine how boundaryless career relates to competence development of managers in Finnish information and communication business sector (ICT) and paper business sector. The research was qualitative by nature and the used research method was a focused interview. The research group included 15 managers from three ICT companies in the field of software and 15 managers from three paper companies specialising in pulp, paper and paperboard manufacture. Managers were themselves responsible for updating their competence; continuous development of skills and knowledge enabled managers to make their own career decisions and manage their career. Career decisions directed the managers' further training needs. High competence level created shelter and self-confidence to managers. Managers were more committed to their competence related to the business sector than any particular organisation, and they wanted to combine work, family and hobbies in their lives as well. Only two Finnish business sectors were included in this study and the target was in the middle management level in organisations. Therefore, the study is not comprehensive. However, the results of the study give information concerning the relation between boundaryless career research and competence research in changing work environments.     

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Books reviewed:
Shenhav, Yehouda, Manufacturing Rationality: the Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution
North J., Blackburn R. and Curran J., The Quality Business: Quality Issues and Smaller Firms
Clark, Ed and Soulsby, Anna, Organizational Change in Post-Communist Europe: Management and Transformation in the Czech Republic
Arthur, M.B., and Inkson K. and Pringle J.K., The New Careers: Individual Action and Economic Change
Green, Bo (Ed.), Risk Behaviour and Risk Management in Business Life
Hussey, David (Ed.), The Strategic Decision Challenge and The Innovation Challenge
McKay, Jim, Managing Gender: Affirmative Action and Organizational Power in Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Sport     

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Begin, James P., (Ed.) Dynamic Human Resource Systems — Cross-National Comparisons
Howard, E. and Bansal, P., Business and the Natural Environment
Bloomfield, Brian P., Coombs, Rod, Knights, David and Litter, Dale, (Eds.) Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks, and Integration
Donaldson, Lex, Performance Driven Organizational Change
Wacjman, Judy, Managing Like a Man
Pollitt, Christopher, Birchall, Johnston and Putnam, Keith, Decentralising Public Service Management     

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Books reviewed: Held, David, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton Global transformations: politics, economics and culture Lin, George C.S. Red capitalism in South China Keyder, Ç. (ed.) Istanbul: between the global and the local JGlasser, Irene and Rae Bridgman Braving the street: the anthropology of homelessness Vanhove, Norbert Regional policy: a European approach Downey, John and Jim McGuigan (eds.) Technocities Malbon, Ben Clubbing: dancing, ecstasy and vitality Hedlund, Stefan Russia’s `market’ economy. A bad case of predatory capitalism Chavez, John R. Eastside landmark: a history of the East Los Angeles Community Union 1968–1993 Butler, Ruth and Hester Parr (eds) Mind and body spaces: geographies of illness, impairment and disability Germaine, Annick and Damaris Rose Montréal: the quest for a metropolis Narotzky, Susana New directions in economic anthropology     

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Books reviewed: Abu‐Lughod, Janet, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s global cities Bascom, Jonathan, Losing place: refugees, populations and rural transformations in East Africa Crawford, J.H., Carfree cities Dunn Jr., James A., Driving forces: the automobile, its enemies, and the politics of mobility Hill, Dilys M., Urban policy and politics in Britain Beauregard, Robert A. and Sophie Body‐Gendrot, (eds.) The urban moment: cosmopolitan essays on the late‐20th‐century city Sardar, Ziauddin, The consumption of Kuala Lumpar Caldeira, Teresa P.R., City of walls: crime, segregation, and citizenship in São Paulo Freeman, Carla, High tech and high heels in the global economy Judd, Dennis R. and Susan S. Fainstein, (eds.) The tourist city Proctor, James D. and David M. Smith, (eds.) Geography and ethics: journeys in a moral terrain