Book Reviews

The Expected Return jrom Pharmaceutical Research
Economics of Research and Development     

Book Reviews

Keith Grint and Steve Woolgar, The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organisation
Harry C Katz, Telecommunications – Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide
Theo Nichols, The Sociology of Industrial Injury
Axel van den Berg, Bengt Furaker, Leif Johansson, Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: a Sweden-Canada Comparison     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Dengjian Jin, The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes: Technology, Culture and Competitiveness in the USA and Japan
Chrisanthi Avgerou and Renata Lébre La Rovere (eds.), Information Systems and the Economics of Innovation
John T. Scott, Environmental Research and Development
Faïz Gallouj, Innovation in the Service Economy: the New Wealth of Nations
Andreas Pyka and Gunter Kuppers (eds.), Innovation Networks Theory and Practice     

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Books reviewed in this issue:
▪ Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams
▪ Virtual and Collaborative Teams: Process, Technologies, and Practice
▪ International Product Liability Law, a Worldwide Desk Reference
▪ Mass Affluence: Seven New Rules of Marketing to Today's Consumer
▪ Creating the Project Office: A Manager's Guide to Leading Organizational Change
▪ The Complete Project Management Office Handbook     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Worker Capitalism: The New Industrial Relations , by Keith Bradley and Alan Gelb
Self-Management: Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice , by Saul Estrin
The Economic Analysis of the Japanese Firm , edited by M. Aoki
Sparks Fly , by Frank Chapple. Michael Joseph
Industrial Relations Research in the 1970s: Review and Appraisal , edited by Thomas A. Kochan, Daniel J. B. Mitchell, and Lee Dyer
Industrial Relations and Management Strategy , edited by Keith Thurley and Stephen Wood
Employers Associations and Industrial Relations: A Comparative Study , edited by John P. Windmuller and Alan Gladstone
Power in a Trade Union: The Role of the District Committee in the AUEW , by Larry James
Industry, Unions and Government: Twenty-One Years of NEDC , Keith Middlemass
Contradictions of the Welfare State , by Claus Offe
Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers' Co-operative , by Judy Wajcman     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Working Order , by Eric Batstone
Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain , by Duncan Gallie.
Industrial Relations in West Germany. A Case Study of the German Car Industry , by Wolfgang Streeck
The Closed Shop in British Industry , by Stephen Dunn and John Gennard
Microprocessors, Manpower and Society. A Comparative, Cross-national Approach , edited by Malcolm
Unionism, Economic Stabilization and Incomes Experience: European Experience , by Robert J. Flanagan, David W. Soskice and Lloyd Ulman
Full Employment: The Elusive Goal , by Derek H Aldcroft
Employee Ownership and Employee Attitudes: Two Case Studies , by Douglas Kruse     

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Sako, M. and Sato, H. (eds), Japanese Labour and Management in Transition: Diversity, Flexibility and Participation
Ferguson, Charles and McKillip, Donal, The Strategic Development of Credit Unions
Cannell, W. and Dankebaar, B. (eds), Technology, Management and Public Policy in the European Union
Ransome, P., The Work Paradigm
Rinehart, James; Huxley, Christopher and Robertson, David, Just Another Car Factory: lean production and its discounts
Dent, Mike, Professions, Information Technology and Management in Hospitals     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Beyond Contract: Work, Power and Trust Relations by Allan Fox. Faber & Faber
The Next Twenty-Five Years of Industrial Relations edited by Gerald G. Somers
Piecework Bargaining by William Brown
Workplace Industrial Relations 1972 by Stanley Parker
Trade Unionism by J. A. Banks
Workers on the Move: the sociology of relocation by Michael Mann
Manpower Planning Models edited by D. J. Clough
The Role of Trade Unions in the Development Process, With a Case Study of Ghana by Ukandi Godwin Damachi
Flexible Working Hours: a case study by Derek Summers
Cloth Cap and After by Innis Macbeath
The Politics of Organisational Decision-making by ANDREW M. PETTIGREW
Management and Morality: The Problems and Opportunities of Social Capitalism by JOHN ADAIR. David & Charles     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Beyond the Workplace by Paul Marginson, P. K. Edwards, Roderick Martin, John Purcell and Keith Sisson.
Trade Unions and Socialist Politics by John Kelly.
Conflict and Class: Scottish Workers 1700-1838 by W. Hamish Fraser. John Donald, Edinburgh,
Engineers in Britain: A Sociological Study of the Engineering Dimension by Ian A. Glover and Michael P. Kelly. Allen and Unwin
IndustrialRelutions in the Public Services , edited by R. Mailly, S. J. Dimmock and A. S. Sethi. Routledge & Kegan Paul
When Public Sector Workers Unionize , edited by Richard B. Freeman and Casey Ichniowski.
Management under Different Labour Market and Employment Systems , edited by Gunter Dlugos, Wolfgang Dorow and Klaus Weiermair. Walter de Gruyter
Managing Technological Development: Strategic and Human Resource Issues , edited by Urs E. Gattiker and Laurie Larwood.
Shopfloor Politics and Job Controls: The Post-War Engineering Industry , edited by Michael Terryand P. K. Edwards.
International and Comparative Industrial Relations , edited by Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury.     

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Truman F. Bewley, Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession
Geoff White and Janet Druker (eds) Reward Management: A Critical Text
Robert Taylor The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism
David Price, Office of Hope: A History of the Unemployment Service
Anna Pollert, Transformation at Work in the New Market Economies of Central Eastern Europe
Sarah Ashwin, Russian Workers: The Anatomy of Patience
Roderick Martin, Akihiro Ishikawa, Csaba Mako´ and Francesco Consoli (eds), Workers, Firms and Unions: Industrial Relations in Transition
David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds) The Re‐engineering Revolution: Critical Studies of Corporate Change
Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson, Great Writers on Organizations: The Second Omnibus Edition
Linda L. Haas, Philip Hwang and Graeme Russell (eds), Organizational Change and Gender Equity: International Perspectives on Fathers and Mothers at the Workplace     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Workplace and Union: A Study of Local Relationships in Fourteen Unions , by Ian Boraston, Hugh Clegg and Malcolm Rimmer
Processing People, Cases in Organizational Behaviour , edited by John B. McKinlay
A Sociology of Organisations , by J. E. T. Eldridge and A. D. Crombie
The Labour Party and the Struggle for Socialism , by David Coates
Burgfrieden und Klassenkampf , by Susanne Miller
Trade Unions, Inflation and Productivity , by Paolo Sylos-Labini
The Strike-Threat System: The Economic Consequences of Collective Bargaining , by W. H. Hutt
Incomes Policy: An Inquest and a Proposal , by Barbara Wootton
Mid-Career Development , by Robert N. Rapoport
Research in Organizational Behaviour—An S.S.R.C. Review , by D. S. Pugh, Roger Mansfield, and Malcolm Warner     

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These reviews remind us that although they are aimed at helping you reach a purchase decision on the book, perhaps more importantly, they are intended to enlighten you in emerging areas of product and service development. New books are perfect for learning about new trends or extensions of the knowledge base, and they allow you to delve into allied areas that are likely to affect your career in product innovation.
Thus, Ruediger Klein reviews our first non-English book, which will expose non-German readers to a German view of software management and product management. Carla Kuesten gives us an in-depth view of a single industry—the food industry—with lessons that readers can probably translate to their field. For future issues, we have a lawyer reviewing books on intellectual property protection, and another review will cover current topics in China regarding product development.
Please let us know of other tangents we should be covering.
Books reviewed in this issue:

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Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue:
Roger Bean and Russell W. Radford
The Business of Innovation: Managing the Corporate Imagination for Maximum Results
Elaine Dundon
The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas
Jacqueline Byrd and Paul Lockwood Brown
The Innovation Equation: Building Creativity and Risk Taking in Your Organization
Books received for possible review in a future issue:
Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, and Alfonso Gambardella
Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy
Paul Belliveau, Abbie Griffin, and Stephen Somermeyer, editors
The PDMA Toolbook for New Product Development
Vincent Bozzone
Speed to Market: Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
   The Social Life of Information
Amiya K.Chakravarty
Market Driven Enterprise: Product Development, Supply Chains, and Manufacturing
Henry Chesbrough
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
Kenneth Carlton Cooper
The Relational Enterprise: Moving beyond CRM to Maximize All Your Business Relationships
Edmund B. Fitzgerald
   Globalizing Customer Solutions
Eliezer Geisler
   Creating Value with Science and Technology
Tim Jones
Innovating at the Edge: How Organizations Evolve and Embed Innovation Capability
Robert C. Megantz
Technology Management: Developing and Implementing Effective Licensing Programs
David Moschella
Customer-Driven IT: How Users Are Shaping Technology Growth
Jeffrey H. Rohlfs
Bandwagon Effects in High-Technology Industries
Gerald Zaltman
How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market
The reviews of three recent books on innovation in this issue are by Kumar Nochur, Ph.D., president of Vidya, Inc.     

Book Reviews

We have reviews of five books that deserve practitioners' attention. The first review discusses the sixth book about accelerating new product development that we have recently reviewed. The McGrath et al. book will be of particular value to those readers who work in large firms on large new product development projects. The second and third reviews cover second editions of significant books. Randy Englund's review of Russ Archibald's book on project management emphasizes how this discipline has value to all new product development project teams. James Scheu reports that George Gruenwald's useful book is of special value to those working in the package goods industry.
The last two reviews stress aspects of teamwork. George Castellion notes that the book by Katzenbach and Smith helpfully illuminates the difference between teamwork and teams. Randy Englund's review of the book by Jeffrey Pfeffer draws our attention to the role and potential abuse of a manager's power in product development.