Corporate Governance and Labour Management. An International Comparison
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.
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1. Corporate Governance and Labour Management: An International Comparison, Howard Gospel and Andrew Pendleton
2. Corporate Governance and Employees in the United States, Sanford Jacoby
3. Markets and Relationships: Finance, Governance, and Labour in the United Kingdom, Andrew Pendleton and Howard Gospel
4. Corporate Governance and Employees in Germany: Changing Linkages, Complementarities, and Tensions, Gregory Jackson, Martin Höpner, and Antje Kudelbusch
5. Corporate Governance in Germany: Ownership, Codetermination, and Firm Performance in a Stakeholder Economy, Bernd Frick and Erik Lehmann
6. Corporate Governance and Labour Management in the Netherlands: Getting the Best of Both Worlds? Erik Poutsma and Geert Braam
7. Labour in French Corporate Governance: The Missing Link, Michel Goyer and Robert Hancke
8. Corporate Governance and Employment Relations: Spain in the Context of Western Europe, Ruth Aguilera
9. Corporate Governance and Industrial Relations in Italy, Sandro Trento
10. Corporate Governance, Labour, and Employment Relations in Japan: The Future of the Stakeholder Model?, Takashi Araki
11. Towards a Comparative Perspective on Corporate Governance and Labour Management: Enterprise Coalitions and National Trajectories, Gregory Jackson
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