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Social research, comparison, inherent differences in educational system, occupational structure, wage structure and labour relations in France and Germany, Federal Republic, refuting economic theories that societies develop similar industrial structures as they modernise - contrasts training systems, occupational qualifications and labour mobility of manual workers and nonmanual workers; examines work organization, career patterns, skills, management, wage determination, workers representation, trade unions, labour disputes. References, statistical tables.
From the bestselling author of The End of History and the Last of Men comes a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order, arguing that a nation's social unity depends on its economic strength—and America is at risk for losing both. In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of twenty-first century capitalism. In Trust, he explains the social principles of economic life and tells us what we need to know to win the coming struggle for world dominance. Challenging orthodoxies of both the left and right, Fukuyama examines a w...
With the impact of globalization, comparative management is becoming one of the single most important areas within management studies. Comparative Management offers instant access to material that has shaped this field to date.
Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases. This book differs sharply from most treatments by explaining differences in minority shareholder protections and ownership concentration among coun...
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