Corporate governance and labour management : an international comparison
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Corporate governance and labour management : an international comparison
Oxford University Press, 2006, c2005
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published in paperback 2006."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-349) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is about the relationship between corporate governance regimes and labour management. It examines how finance and governance influence employment relationships, work organization, and industrial relations by means of a comparative analysis of Anglo-American, European, and Japanese economies.
The starting point is the distinction widely found in the corporate governance, business systems, and political economy literature between countries dominated by 'shareholder value' conceptions of corporate governance and those characterized by 'stakeholder' regimes. By drawing on a wide range of countries, the book is able to demonstrate the complexities of corporate governance arrangements and to present a more precise and nuanced exploration of the linkages between governance and labour
management.
Each country-based chapter provides an analysis of the evolution and key characteristics of corporate governance and then links this to labour management institutions and practices. The chapters cover the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain, with each written by a leading academic expert in the field. By providing a historical review of the evolution of national systems, the contributors provide judicious evaluations of the current
state and future direction of national governance and labour relations systems.
Overall, the book goes beyond the 'complementarities' between governance and labour management systems identified in recent literature, and attempts to identify causal relationships between the two. It shows how labour management institutions and practices may influence finance and corporate governance systems, as well as vice versa. The contributions to this book illuminate current debates about the determinants of corporate governance, the convergence of national 'varieties of capitalism',
and the impact of corporate governance on managerial behaviour. The book highlights the complexities of corporate governance systems and refines the distinction between market/outsider and relational/insider systems.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Corporate Governance and Labour Management: An International Comparison
- 2. Corporate Governance and Employees in the United States
- 3. Markets and Relationships: Finance, Governance, and Labour in the United Kingdom
- 4. Corporate Governance and Employees in Germany: Changing Linkages, Complementarities, and Tensions
- 5. Corporate Governance in Germany: Ownership, Codetermination, and Firm Performance in a Stakeholder Economy
- 6. Corporate Governance and Labour Management in the Netherlands: Getting the Best of Both Worlds?
- 7. Labour in French Corporate Governance: The Missing Link
- 8. Corporate Governance and Employment Relations: Spain in the Context of Western Europe
- 9. Corporate Governance and Industrial Relations in Italy
- 10. Corporate Governance, Labour, and Employment Relations in Japan: The Future of the Stakeholder Model?
- 11. Towards a Comparative Perspective on Corporate Governance and Labour Management: Enterprise Coalitions and National Trajectories
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