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     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: European Industrial Relations: the Challenge of Flexibility Guido Baglioni and Colin Crouch (Eds.) Labor Relations in Europe: a History of Issues and Developments Hans Slomp Greenwood Non-Standard Forms of Employment in Europe. Part-time Work, Fixed Term Contracts and Temporary Work Contracts Partial Unemployment: The Regulation of Short-Time Working in Britain Erika M. Szyszczak A Portrait of Pay, 1970–1982: An Analysis of the New Earnings Survey M. B. Gregory and A. W. J. Thomson, (Eds.) Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries L. Calmfors (Ed.) Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and the Exchange Rate W. Carlin and D. Unemployment and Wage Determination in Europe B. Holmlund and K. G. Lofgren (Eds.) Labor Economics: A Comparative Text Robert F. Elliot Trade Unions and Their Members P. Fosh and E. Heery (Eds.) The Sexuality of Organization J. Hearn, L. Sheppard, P. Tancred-Sheriff and G. Burrell (Eds.) Reshaping Work: The Cadbury Experience C. Smith, J. Child and M. Rowlinson Information Technology in European Services: Towards a Microelectronic Future John Child and Ray Loveridge     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Legal Intervention in Industrial Relations: Gains and Losses William McCarthy (ed) Workplace Industrial Relations–Australian Case Studies R. Lansbury and D. Macdonald (Eds.) Industrial Democracy as Process: Participatory Action Research in the Fagor Cooperative Group of Mondragón Davydd J. Greenwood, José Luis González Santos et al. Van Gorcum The National Health Service and the Labour Market R. A. Wilson and J. A. Stilwell (Eds.) Labour Governments and Private Industry: the Experience of 1945–1951 , H. Mercer, N. Rollings and J. Tomlinson, (Eds.) The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures W. Mark Fruin Prices, Quality and Trust: Interfirm Relations in Britain and Japan Mari Sako     

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Real World Economics Christopher Huhne Privatisation and Deregulation in Global Perspective Dennis Gayle and Jonathan Goodrich (eds.) The Market and Beyond: Cooperation and Competition in Information Technology in the Japanese System Martin Fransma Managing on the Edge: How Successful Companies use Conflict to Stay Ahead . Richard Pascale The Strategic Management of Technological Innovation R. Loveridge and M. Pitt, (Eds) The Economics of Human Resource Management D. J. B. Mitchell and M. A. Zaidi (eds.) Training Matters Helen Rainbird Mismatch and Labour Mobility Fiorella Padoa-Schioppa (ed.) Current Issues in Labour Economics D. Sapsford and Z. Tzannatos (Eds.) Labour Economics (second edition) J. E. King Scheming for Youth? A Study of YTS in the Enterprise Culture D. Lee, D. Marsden, P. Rickman and J. Duncombe Women & Men in Britain 1990 Equal Opportunities Commission     

Book Reviews

Governments, Managers and Industrial Relations. Public Enterprises and their Political Environment Anthony Ferner Information and Government Studies in the Dynamics of Policy-Making Roger Davidson and Phil White (Eds.) When Public Sector Workers Unionize Richard Freeman and Casey Ichniowski (Eds.) Making Mondragon W. Foote Whyte and K. King Whyte Worker Co-operatives in Theory and Practice M. Mellor, J. Hannah, J. Stirling Developing Successful Worker Co-operatives C. Cornforth, A. Thomas, J. Lewis and R. Spear The Origins of Economic Democracy—Profit Sharing and Employee-Shareholding Schemes Michael Poole People's Capitalism? A Critical Analysis of Profit-Sharing and Employee Share Ownership Lesley Baddon, Laurie Hunter, Jeff Hyman, John Leopold, and Harvie Ramsay The Third Way—The Promise of Industrial Democracy Dennis Lawrence The Search for Labour Market Flexibility R. Boyer (Ed.) The Changing Ideas of a Teachers Union C. T. Kerchner and D. E. Mitchell Safety at Work: the Limits of Self-regulation S. Dawson, P. Willman, M. Bamford and A. Clinton Shopfloor Politics and Job Controls: the post-war engineering industry Michael Terry and P. K. Edwards (Eds.)     

Book Reviews

Human Resource Management in international Firms: Change, Globalization, Innovation Paul Evans, Yves Doz And Andre Laurent (Eds.) New Technology: International Perspectives on Human Resources And Industrial Relation Greg J. Bamber And Russell D. Lansbury (Eds.) Changing Patterns of Employee Relations Mick Marchington and Philip Parker, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990 Managers as Employees: an International Comparison of The Changing Character of Managerial Employment Myron J. Roomkin (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press The Tom Peters Experience And Crosby on Quality London: Bbc Enterprises Ltd.     

Employment law and The European Community: review article

Book reviewed in this article: Business Transfers and Employee Rights John McMullen Butterworths Harmonization and Hazard: Regulating Workplace Health and Safety in the European Community Robert Baldwin and Terence Daintith (Eds.) EC Social Policy and 1992: Laws, Cases and Materials Union of Parts: Labor Politics in Postwar Germany Kathleen A. Thelen The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative Historical Context S. Tolliday and J. Zeitlin (Eds.) Trouble on Board: The Plight of International Seafarers Paul K. Chapman (Introduction by Clifford B. Donn) Markets, Firms and the Management of Labour in Modern Britain . Howard Gospel Hard Cheese: A Study of Hotel and Catering Employment in Scotland Ian R. Macaulay and Roy C. Wood Working Miracles: Experiences of Jobs and Childcare Usha Brown and Louise Tait Scottish     

Book Reviews

The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party Lewis Minkin Trade Unions in British Politics–the first 200 years Ben Pimlott and Chris Cook (eds.) The Permanent Revolution? Conservative Law and the Trade Unions John McIlroy Taming the Trade Unions: a Guide to the Thatcher Government's Employment Reforms, 1980–1990 , Charles G. Hanson Industrial Sociology and Economic Crisis John Eldridge, Peter Cressey and John MacInnes Making their Way, Education, Training and the Labour Market in Canada and Britain D. Ashton and G. Lowe (eds.) Training and its Alternatives D. Gleeson (ed.) Working Together: Labour-management cooperation in training and in technological and other changes Alan Gladstone and Muneto Ozaki, (eds.) Training for Older People: A Handbook Peter C. Plett and Brenda T. Lester Vulnerable Workers: psychosocial and legal issues , Marilyn J. Davidson and Jill Earnshaw (eds.) Business and Politics: A Comparative Introduction , (2nd. edn.) Graham K. Wilson Industrial Relations at Work: The Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Callus R., Morehead A., Cully M and Buchanan J. Comparative Industrial Relations: Contemporary Research and Theory Roy J. Adams (ed.) A Handbook of Dispute Resolution–ADR in Action Karl J. Mackie Negotiation from Theory to Practice Jacques Rojot The Mediator Revisited: Profile of a Profession 1960s and 1985 Ruth F. Necheles-Jansyn Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialised Market Economies Roger Blanpain (General Editor)     

Endogenous wage dispersion in a search-matching model

In this paper, we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training, originally developed by Mortensen (Equilibrium Unemployment with Wage Posting: Burdett–Mortensen Meet Pissarides. In: Bunzel et al. (Eds.), Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 281–292), to allow for different offer arrival rates in employment and unemployment. The extension allows for extra flexibility when the model is confronted with real data. We subsequently estimate the parameters of the model on Danish labour market data using a structural nonparametric estimation procedure. We find that the model provides a good characterization of some empirical features of the labor market.     

Book Reviews

Inside Japan–Wealth Work and Power in the New Japanese Empire Peter Tasker Managing Owners: The National Freight Consortium in Perspective K. Bradley and A. Nejad Sharing the Success: the Story of NFC Sir Peter Thompson The Political Economy of Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice in a Cold Climate Richard Hyman Beyond the Workplace: Managing Industrial Relations in the Multi-Establishment Enterprise . Paul Marginson, P. K. Edwards, Roderick Martin, John Purcell and Keith Sisson New Perspectives on Human Resource Management John Storey (ed.) Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation G. and J. Rodgers (Eds.) A Secretary and a Cook, Challenging Women's Wages in the Courts of the United States and Great Britain Steven I. Willborn Change in Industrial Relations P. B. Beaumont Changing Patterns of Employee Relations Mick Marchington and Philip Parker Industrial Relations Strategies M. W. Nuttall     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: Farewell to Flexibility Anna Pollert, (ed.) A Flexible Future? Prospects for Employment and Organisation Paul Blyton and Jonathan Morris (eds.) Self-Employment: A Labor Market Perspective Robert L Aronson Labour Movements, Employers, and the State: Conflict and Cooperation in Britain and Sweden James Fulcher Against Unemployment Michael White Public Sector Industrial Relations P.B. Beaumont Government and its employees Wouter van Ginneken (ed.) Britain's Real Skills Shortage and What To Do About It John Cassels Women, Training and the Skills Shortage Joan Payne The Enemy Without: policing and class consciousness in the miners’ strike Penny Green Split at the Seams? community, continuity and change after the 1984-5 coal dispute David Waddington, Maggie Wykes and Chas Critcher A Tale of Two Industries’ the contraction of coal and steel in the North East of England Huw Beynon, Ray Hudson and David Sadler     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Human Rights and Labour Law. Essays for Paul O'Higgins K. D. Ewing, C. A. Gearty and B. A. Hepple, (Eds) Working for the Union–British Trade Union Officers John Kelly and Edmund Heery Agenda for change: An International Analysis of Industrial Relations in Transition J. Niland and O. Clarke, Editors Labour and Industry in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from the Newly-Industrialized Countries Barry Wilkinson Comparative Industrial Relations: An Introduction to Cross-National Perspectives (2nd Edition) Ron Bean Gender and Trade Unions Elizabeth Lawrence Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement Dana Frank Youth and Work: Transition to Employment in England and Germany John Bynner and Ken Roberts (Eds) Becoming Adults in England and Germany Karen Evans and Walter R. Heinz (Eds) Regulating Employment and Welfare. Company and National Policies of Labour Force Participation at the End of Worklife in Industrial Countries Frieder Naschold and Bert de Vroom (eds) Scandinavia in a New Europe Thomas P. Boje and Sven E. Olsson Hort (eds) Craft, Class and Control Ian Roberts Union Education in Britain: a TUC activity John Holford     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article:
Management Consultants . By F rank D avidson
Personnel Managment in a Changing Society . By T. P. L yons
Job Enrichment and Employee Motivation . By W. J. P aul and K. B. R obertson
Occupational Pysychology . By D onald E. S uper and M artin J. B ohn J r .
Human Bebaviour and Employment Interviewing . By D ean B. P eskin
Case Studies in Human Relations . By K enneth V. P orter
Information for Decision Making; Quantitative and Behavioural Dimensions . By A lfred R appaport (Ed.)
Income Theory and Rate of Return . By J. L. L ivingstone and T. J. B urns (Eds.)
Accounting Case Studies (Business Case Studies Series) . By K. M idgley and R. G. B urns
The Prediction of Profitability and Other Studes of Company Behaviour . By G eoffrey W hittington     

Evolving Game Theory

Jörgen W. Weibull (1995) Evolutionary Game Theory. MIT Press. £18.50 $30 xv+265 pp. Ken Binmore, Alan Kirman and Piero Tani (eds) (1993) Frontiers of Game Theory. MIT Press. £40.50 $47.50 350 pp.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: The Employment Relationship: Examining Psychological and Contextual Perspectives
J. A. M. Coyle‐Shapiro, L. M. Shore, S. M. Taylor and L. E. Tetrick (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2004, 377 pp., £55.00
Reviewed by Melanie Simms
University of Kent International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and the Developed Market Economies
Greg J. Bamber, Russell D. Lansbury and Nick Wailes (eds)
Sage Publications, 2004 (4th edn), 472 pp., £75.00 (hardback), £24.99 (paperback)
Reviewed by Sarah Pass
Cardiff University Multinational Companies and Global Human Resource Strategies
William N. Cooke (ed.)
Quorum, 2003, 433 pp., £48.50
Reviewed by Trevor Colling
University of Warwick     

Weber, Jürgen: Erfolg der Controller Wie Controller zum Unternehmenserfolg beitragen (Band 68) Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim 2009, 67 S., ISBN: 978-3-527-50421-3, 24,90 €

Praxis / MagazinLeseliste Top 5: Erfolg des Controllers

Weber, Jürgen: Erfolg der Controller Wie Controller zum Unternehmenserfolg beitragen (Band 68) Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim 2009, 67 S., ISBN: 978-3-527-50421-3, 24,90 €     

„Wichtig für eine gute Planung ist das Commitment der Manager und der Controller“

Praxis / ArtikelInterview

„Wichtig für eine gute Planung ist das Commitment der Manager und der Controller“ Interview mit Dr. Jürgen Schmidberger, Leiter des Bereichs Controlling/Finanzen der Vattenfall Europe AG     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
GLOBAL EFFECTS OF LIBERALISING TRADE IN FARM PRODUCTS K. Anderson and R. Tyers
THE STRATEGY & CONSISTENCY OF FEDERAL RESERVE MONETARY POLICY 1924–1933 David C. Wheelock
DIVERSE PATHS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Richard Pomfret
EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND MIGRATION P.C. Emmer and M. Mörner (Eds.)
ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS, VOLUME 4: WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WORLD ECONOMY Nancy Folbre, Barbara Bergmann, Bina Agarwal and Maria Flora (Eds.)
EXCHANGE RATE TARGETS & CURRENCY BANDS Paul Krugman and Marcus Miller (Eds.)
THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL MONETARY SYSTEMS Alfred Steinherr and Daniel Weisherbs (Eds.)
THE LEGACY OF THE GOLDEN AGE-THE 1960s AND THEIR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES Frances Cairncross and Alec Cairncross
BEYOND THE LIMITS: GLOBAL COLLAPSE OR A SUSTAINABLE-FUTURE Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers
THE FORTUNES OF LIBERALISM; VOLUME IV OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF F.A. HAYEK Peter G. Klein (Ed.)
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; THE BUILDING OF A UNION John Pinder
FORESTS: MARKETS & INTERVENTION FAILURES: FIVE CASE STUDIES SÖren Wibe and Tom Jones (Eds.)
FEDERALISM IMPERIL: WILL CANADA SURVIVE A.R. Riggs and Tom Velk
DEN OF THIEVES James B. Stewart
PRICES AND KNOWLEDGES: A MARKET-PROCESS PERSPECTIVE Esteban F. Thomsen
FROM BOOM TO BUST: TRIAL AND ERROR IN BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY David Smith     

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.)