This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and outcomes. It organizes an immensely rich body of theoretical and empirical material to sustain its core argument that the governance of industrial relations is increasingly multi-level. Cross-national influences are shown to mix with national ones and involve the European sector and company, as well as Community, levels. Competing tendencies towards 'Europeanization', 'Americanization' and 'Re-nationalization' are identified. The approach is multi-disciplinary and truly...

Comparing Britain and Japan, this text questions the authenticity of the popular image of Japanese personnel and management development, which has been held up as a model. It addresses such topics as different systems of selection and recruitment, and contrasting approaches to management control.

This study examines the development of the§hierocratic theory of government in the High Middle§Ages, especially during the Franco-papal conflict,§1296-1303. Hierocratic ideas that the papacy held§supreme authority in both spiritual and temporal§matters flourished during the High Middle Ages, and§they continued to evolve until the early fourteenth§century. Given this development, a perennial§question became ever more pressing: what is the§proper relation between the spiritual and temporal§powers? §§This debate culminated in the spirited Franco-papal§conflict of the...