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Опубликовано на портале: 22-12-2006
Ред.: Howard Gospel, Andrew Pendleton
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 400 с.
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.

