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: Laboring Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low‐Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy edited by Frank Munger. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2002, xi + 319 pp., ISBN 0871 546175, £42.50. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. Granta Books, London, 2002, 328 pp., ISBN 1 86207 588 3, £8.99 paper. Hard Work: Life in Low‐Pay Britain by Polly Toynbee. Bloomsbury, London, 2003, 242 pp., ISBN 7475 6415 9, £6.99, paper.
Reviewed by Mary Romero
School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University Low‐Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace edited by Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt and Richard J. Murnane. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2003, xii + 535 pp., ISBN 0 87154 025 8, $45.
Reviewed by David Fairris
University of California, Riverside Employment Stability in an Age of Flexibility: Evidence from Industrialized Countries edited by Peter Auer and Sandrine Cazes. International Labour Office, Geneva, 2003, xv + 272 pp., ISBN 92 2 112716 8, SFr 35, paper.
Reviewed by Gary Slater
Economics Division, Nottingham Trent University Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low‐end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise edited by Edmund S. Phelps. Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0 521 81965 5, £40.
Reviewed by David A. Spencer
Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds Can Labor Standards Improve under Globalization? by Kimberley Ann Elliot and Richard B. Freeman. Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, 2003, xii + 179 pp., ISBN 0 88132 332 2 £19.50 paper. International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade, and Public Policy edited by Robert J. Flanagan and William B. Gould iv . Stanford University Press, Stanford, Cal., 2004, 275 pp., ISBN 0 8047 4690 7, £36.95.
Reviewed by Rohini Hensman
Union Research Group, Bombay International Handbook of Trade Unions edited by John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, Mass., 2003, viii + 555 pp., ISBN 1 84064 979, £140.
Reviewed by Bob Elliott
Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy by Katrina Burgess. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh Pa, 2004, xxiii + 209 pp., ISBN 0 8229 5825 2, $27.95.
Reviewed by Kerstin Hamann
Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida Industrial Relations and European Integration: Trans‐ and Supranational Developments and Prospects edited by Berndt Keller and Hans‐Wolfgang Platzer. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, ISBN 0 7546 33365, pp. 182, £45.
Reviewed by Richard Hyman
London School of Economics Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario by Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin. University of Toronto Press, Toronto/Buffalo/London, 2003, xv + 279 pp., ISBN 0 8020 8753 1, $60/£35.
Reviewed by Daphne G. Taras
University of Calgary     

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

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: 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.     

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.     

The Oxford Handbook of Work & Organization – Edited by Stephen Ackroyd,Rosemary Batt,Paul Thompson and Pamela S.

Books reviewed: The Oxford Handbook of Work & Organization edited by Stephen Ackroyd, Rosemary Batt, Paul Thompson and Pamela S. Tolbert. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xiii + 655 pp., ISBN 0 19 926992 0, £75.00.     

Demanding Work — The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy – Francis Green

Books reviewed: Demanding Work — The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy by Francis Green. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2006, xiii + 225 pp., ISBN 0 6911 17128, £26.95.     

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.     

The Future of Worker Representation – Edited by Geraldine Healy,Edmund Heery,Phil Taylor and William Brown

Books reviewed: The Future of Worker Representation edited by Geraldine Healy, Edmund Heery, Phil Taylor and William Brown. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, xvi + 325 pp., ISBN 1 4039 17590, £55.00.     

French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy – Nick Parsons

Books reviewed: French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy by Nick Parsons. Routledge, London and New York, 2005, xii + 222 pp., ISBN 0 415368529, £75.00.     

Managing to Change? British Workplaces and the Future of Work – Michael White,Stephen Hill,Colin Mills and Deborah Smeaton

Books reviewed: Managing to Change? British Workplaces and the Future of Work by Michael White, Stephen Hill, Colin Mills and Deborah Smeaton. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, xi + 214 pp., ISBN 1 4039 38059, £52.50.     

Book Reviews

Stimulating Innovation: A Systems Approach. T. Rickards, London, Frances Pinter. xi + 221 pages. MICHAEL A. WEST The Strategic Discount—Ways to an Entrepreneurial Strategy by G. J. Pearson, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 1985 A. WILKINSON Models For Innovation Diffusion by Vijay Mahajan and Robert A. Peterson. Sage Publications, Beverley Hills/London/New Delhi. 1985. Softback $5.00 GEORGE HAYWARD Analytical Planning—The Organisation of Systems by Thomas L. Saaty and Kevin P. Keams, Pergamon Press. 1985. Hardback £29.50 $40. DAVID SUTTON Management in Transition by Philip R. Harris. Jossey-Bass Publishers 1985 Hardback £33 00 xxvii and 404 pages. GEORGE HAYWARD Science Parks and Innovation Centres: Their Economic and Social Impact. Proceedings of the conference held in Berlin, 13–15 February 1985 edited by J. M. Gibb. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. 1985. Hardback. US $64.75, Dfl. 175.00. ix. 477pp. Science Parks in Britain: Their role for the late 1980's by Jean Currie. CSP Economic Publications 1985. Softback £98.105pp. Britain's New Products: The AICE Report (2nd Edition) compiled and published by the Association of Innovation Centre Executives. 1986 Paperback £6.00. vii. 39pp. G. HAYWARD Introduction to Goal Programming by J. P. Ignizio, Sage University Paper, Quantitative Applications in the Social Science Series. No. 56. 1986. £4.95. C. H. ONG Human Resources Accounting—advances in concepts, methods and applications by Eric G. Framholtz. D. YEO     

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     

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Joel Bakan. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
Reviewed by Simon Deakin Carola M. Frege and John Kelly, editors. Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy.
Reviewed by Dan Clawson Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz with Rafael Gomez and Ivan Katchanovski. The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More than Canadians do But Join Much Less.
Reviewed by Andy Charlwood Tony Elger and Chris Smith. Assembling Work: Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain.
Reviewed by Andy Danford Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley. United They Stood: The Story of the UK Firefighters’ Dispute 2002–2004.
Reviewed by Ralph Darlington Jeremy Waddington, Marcus Kahmann and Jürgen Hoffmann. A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain and Germany — Joining Forces?
Reviewed by Berndt Keller Robert M. Fishman. Democracy's Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain.
Reviewed by Kerstin Hamann Mick Marchington, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Hugh Willmott, editors Fragmenting Work: Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies.
Reviewed by Mary S. Logan David Howell, editor Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy.
Reviewed by Sotiria Theodoropoulou     

Theorizing the Employment Relationship: Materialists and Institutionalists

Books reviewed: Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull. The Dynamics of Employee Relations.
Bruce E. Kaufman, editor. Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship.
Reviewed by Peter Ackers Harry C. Katz, Wonduck Lee and Joohee Lee, editors. The New Structure of Labor Relations — Tripartism and Decentralization.
Reviewed by Lorenzo Bordogna Ian Fitzgerald and John Stirling, editors. European Works Councils: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will?.
Reviewed by Richard Hyman John McIlroy, Alan Campbell and Keith Gildart, editors. Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lockout: The Struggle for Dignity.
Keith Gildart. North Wales Miners: A Fragile Unity, 1945–1996.
Reviewed by Richard Croucher Massimo Florio. The Great Divestiture — Evaluating the Impact of the British Privatisations 1979–1997.
Reviewed by Michael G. Pollitt Elizabeth C. Dunn. Privatizing Poland — Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor.
Reviewed by Tatjana Thelen Jonathan Brock and David B. Lipsky, editors. Going Public: The Role of Labor‐Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services.
Reviewed by Rebecca Kolins Givan William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder and Edward N. Wolff. Downsizing in America — Reality, Causes, and Consequences.
Reviewed by John Schmitt D. Grant, C. Hardy, C. Oswick and L. Putnam, editors. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse.
Reviewed by Barbara Townley     

Book Reviews

Strategic Management of Human Resources A Portfolio Approach . George S. Odione. Jossey Bass Ltd, 1985. £30.75 Hdbk., D. YEO
The Philosophy of Leadership . Christopher Hodgkinson. Basil Blackwell, Publisher, Oxford 1983. pp. 247, £12.50, S. R. EPTON
Current Research in Management . Edited by Valerie Hammond. Published by Frances Pinter, London and Dover, 1985, pp. 265, DOUG LOVEDAY
Foresight in Science—Picking The Winners . J. Irvine and B. R. Martin. Francis Pinter, London, 1984. £12.50, S. R. POSTLE
Capital Investment Selection . Johan G. Wissema. Francis Pinter, London. 1985. £17.50, T. W. McRAE
The Environment for Entrepreneurship . Calvin A. Kent. Lexington Books, Gower Publishing Company Limited. 1984. Hardback £22.00. 190 pages, GEORGE HAYWARD
R&D, Patents, and Productivity . Edited by Zvi Griliches. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. 1984. Hardback £46.00. 512 pages, GEORGE HAYWARD
Innovation and Technology Transfer for the Growing Firm: Text and Cases . Julian Lowe and Nick Crawford, School of Management, University of Bath. Pergamon Press. 1984. Hardback £11.50. 226 pages, GEORGE HAYWARD
Aspects of Japanese Commercial Innovation . Rodney Clark. Technical Change Centre, London, 1984., S. A. BERGEN
The Marketing of Technology , This is an addition to the IEE Management of Technology Series published by Peter Peregrinus Ltd. 1984. The Series Editor is G. A. Montgomerie, an earnest of informed and workmanlike texts. Price £15 UK, $38 Americas, £19 elsewhere., S. A. BERGEN
Improving leadership effectiveness: the leader match concept . Fred E. Fiedler and Martin M. Chemers, 2nd edition. J, Wiley, New York. 1984. £10.60, ROY PAYNE
The Trouble with Technology: Explorations in the Process of Technological Change . S. MacDonald, D. McL. Lamberton, T. D. Mandeville, (eds.). 1983. London: Frances Pinter, P. P. SAVIOTTI     

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

Book reviewed in this article:
The New Workplace and Trade Unionism: Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisation edited by Peter Ackers, Chris Smith and Paul Smith
Managing Employee Relations in the Hotel and Catering Industry by Rosemary Lucas
Productivity Management in Hospitality and Tourism edited by Nick Johns
The Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Relations edited by Kirsten S. Weaver and Lowell Turner
Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Production edited by Åke Sandberg
Labour Law and Freedom: Further Essays in Labour Law by Lord Wedderburn. Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1995, xv + 464 pp., £24.95 paper.
Future Skill Demand and Supply: Trends, Shortages and Gluts edited by Hilary Metcalf
Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, their Symptoms and Policy Responses edited by Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. Snower
The Youth Labour Market in Britain: the Role of Intervention by B. M. Deakin.
Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe by A. B. Atkinson
New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom edited by John Hills
Management, Labour and Industrial Politics in Modern Europe: the Quest for Productivity Growth during the Twentieth Century edited by Joseph Melling and Alan McKinlay
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour edited by Nigel Nicholson