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Revolutions of the late twentieth century
Book Reviews and the poor poorer. Worth reading but not an optimistic scenario. Pessimism from the other political direction is reflected in After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism, ROBIN BLACKBURN (Ed.), Verso (1991), 327 pp., L32.95 (hard), LlO.95 (paper). A collection of 20 papers, pity no index.
Tile Future ofBanking, JAMES L. PIERCE, Yale University (1991), 163 pp., E16.95.
Press
Reviews the history of banking and bank regulation in the United States, against the background of the savings and loans industry failures. Recommends separation ofstrictly regulated monetary services from all other financial services that would be lightly regulated. But underestimates the scope for the abuse of power when massive opportunities to ‘get rich quick’ appear to arise in a rapidly changing and unregulated world.
Bohon 20 years on: The Small Firm in the 19903, JOHN STANWORTHand COLIN GRAY (Eds), Paul Chapman Publishing (1991), 292 pp., E29.95. November 1991 marked the 20th anniversary of the Bolton Committee Inquiry on Small Firms in the U.K. This study, Commissioned by the National Westminster Bank, provides a valuable general guide to what has changed and what has not. Unfortunately, the traumas of the past 2 years have done much to undermine the ‘enterprise culture’ established earlier in the 1980s. Small Business Success, PAUL FOLEY and HOWARD GREEN (Eds), Paul Chapman Publishing (1991), 115 pp., Al2.95, is written for small business owners who want their company to become more successful. Also of interest to those supporting the small business sector and business studies students.
Hoover’s Handbook of World BlJ5i#e3s Inc. (1991), 330 pp., Ll6.95.
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This completely revised edition also includes an expanded chapter on the U.K. information on Stock Exchange requirements and an evaluation of the major business newspapers and journals. SourceGuide to Economic Znformation, 1st Edition (1990), 96 pp., L20.00. Lists and evaluates 101 of the best and most easily accessible official and non-official sources for finding data on the economy and its related disciplines. A similar approach to information on Eastern Europe is taken in Source Guide to Eastern European Information, 1st Edition (1991), 102 pp., k20.00. A new reference guide to the major international sources of information relating to acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures is mergers, contained in SourceCuide to Mergers G Acquisitions Information, 1st Edition (1991), 64 pp., A20.00.
International Review of Strategic Management, Volume 2, Number 2 (1991), D. E. HUSSEY (Ed.), John Wiley (1992), 221 pp., ~35.00. Takes issues for the 1990s as its theme, set in a paper by the Editor. Others include reviews of the European Demographic Crisis; the growing importance of Strategic Human Resource Management; Strategic Alliances; Changes in Eastern Europe, as well as South-East Asia.
Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century, Edited by JACK A. GOLDSTONE, TED ROBERT GURR and FARROKH MOSHIRI, Westview Press (1992), 395 pp., Ll3.50. A fascinating insight into the nature of twentieth century revolutions which shows that, despite the apparent end of the cold war, revolutions are likely to continue. Readers of this study are likely to be less caught by surprise than those who fail to recognize that there are patterns in history. Another study that provides useful clues to predicting social change is Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, ETIENNE BALIBAR and IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, Verso (1991), 232 pp., LlO.95 (paper), L32.95 (hard).
Press
Provides concise profiles of 165 of the most important companies with headquarters outside the U.S., as well as brief profiles of 61 countries. There is also a chapter on the Top Ten Companies for the ’90s-Bertelsmann, Hutchison Whampoa, L’Oreal, Reuters, Seagram, Sharp, Singapore Airlines, Sony, Telefonos de Mexico, and Toyota; with runners up being Cable and Wireless, Fuji Photo Film, Glaxo, Ito-Yokado, Shell, and SmithKline Beecham. We shall see.
lnformatiorl Sources. The London Business School provides a number of useful Directories: Guidr to European Market Information: EC Countries, 1st Edition (1991). 129 pp., L50.00. Eleven chapters arranged by country (excluding the U.K.), providing details of: published market research studies, marketing and advertising journals, trade journals, statistical series on trade and industry, online sources of market data, subscription services, trade and o&al bodies; in addition to the most important industries and leading media and marketing organizations. Guide to European Company Il!formation: EC Countries, 4th Edition (1990), 127 pp., L50.00. Twelve country chapters providing details of the registration and disclosure procedures in each member state, together with descriptions of relevant online databases and directories for each country; as well as details of report/credit-rating agencies.
International Business Studies: An Overview, Edited by PETERJ. BUCKLEY and MICHAEL Z. BROOKE, Blackwcll(1992), 623 pp., L75.00. An impresive survey of the body of knowledge related to international business, with sections dealing with: The theories relevant to international trade and investment; The framework of international trade; The institutions of world trade; International investment; International management; and International business teaching and research. Invaluable for a Business School library but too expensive for use as a student text. The need for more concerted international attention to bc given to the question of agreed guidelines for state support to R & D, greater international convergence of policies relating to competition and foreign investment, more analysis of structural differences between national economies and the accessibility of technology for third countries is provided in Strategic Industries in a Global Economy: Policy hues for the 199Os, OECD International Futures Programmc (1991), 106 pp., FF120. But no rcfcrcncc to Porter in the brief biography and it is a pity that these documents still have such an academic, rather than managerial, approach. A detailed cast study of one particular industry is provided in Competition in the Swiss Plastics Manufacturing Industry: A Group Analysis Based on Micro-Micro Considerations, FRED VON GUNTEN, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg (1991), 403 pp., DMIOO. But pity that the presentation was not more rcadcr friendly.
Tile Future ofBanking, JAMES L. PIERCE, Yale University (1991), 163 pp., E16.95.
Press
Reviews the history of banking and bank regulation in the United States, against the background of the savings and loans industry failures. Recommends separation ofstrictly regulated monetary services from all other financial services that would be lightly regulated. But underestimates the scope for the abuse of power when massive opportunities to ‘get rich quick’ appear to arise in a rapidly changing and unregulated world.
Bohon 20 years on: The Small Firm in the 19903, JOHN STANWORTHand COLIN GRAY (Eds), Paul Chapman Publishing (1991), 292 pp., E29.95. November 1991 marked the 20th anniversary of the Bolton Committee Inquiry on Small Firms in the U.K. This study, Commissioned by the National Westminster Bank, provides a valuable general guide to what has changed and what has not. Unfortunately, the traumas of the past 2 years have done much to undermine the ‘enterprise culture’ established earlier in the 1980s. Small Business Success, PAUL FOLEY and HOWARD GREEN (Eds), Paul Chapman Publishing (1991), 115 pp., Al2.95, is written for small business owners who want their company to become more successful. Also of interest to those supporting the small business sector and business studies students.
Hoover’s Handbook of World BlJ5i#e3s Inc. (1991), 330 pp., Ll6.95.
1992, The Reference
113
This completely revised edition also includes an expanded chapter on the U.K. information on Stock Exchange requirements and an evaluation of the major business newspapers and journals. SourceGuide to Economic Znformation, 1st Edition (1990), 96 pp., L20.00. Lists and evaluates 101 of the best and most easily accessible official and non-official sources for finding data on the economy and its related disciplines. A similar approach to information on Eastern Europe is taken in Source Guide to Eastern European Information, 1st Edition (1991), 102 pp., k20.00. A new reference guide to the major international sources of information relating to acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures is mergers, contained in SourceCuide to Mergers G Acquisitions Information, 1st Edition (1991), 64 pp., A20.00.
International Review of Strategic Management, Volume 2, Number 2 (1991), D. E. HUSSEY (Ed.), John Wiley (1992), 221 pp., ~35.00. Takes issues for the 1990s as its theme, set in a paper by the Editor. Others include reviews of the European Demographic Crisis; the growing importance of Strategic Human Resource Management; Strategic Alliances; Changes in Eastern Europe, as well as South-East Asia.
Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century, Edited by JACK A. GOLDSTONE, TED ROBERT GURR and FARROKH MOSHIRI, Westview Press (1992), 395 pp., Ll3.50. A fascinating insight into the nature of twentieth century revolutions which shows that, despite the apparent end of the cold war, revolutions are likely to continue. Readers of this study are likely to be less caught by surprise than those who fail to recognize that there are patterns in history. Another study that provides useful clues to predicting social change is Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, ETIENNE BALIBAR and IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, Verso (1991), 232 pp., LlO.95 (paper), L32.95 (hard).
Press
Provides concise profiles of 165 of the most important companies with headquarters outside the U.S., as well as brief profiles of 61 countries. There is also a chapter on the Top Ten Companies for the ’90s-Bertelsmann, Hutchison Whampoa, L’Oreal, Reuters, Seagram, Sharp, Singapore Airlines, Sony, Telefonos de Mexico, and Toyota; with runners up being Cable and Wireless, Fuji Photo Film, Glaxo, Ito-Yokado, Shell, and SmithKline Beecham. We shall see.
lnformatiorl Sources. The London Business School provides a number of useful Directories: Guidr to European Market Information: EC Countries, 1st Edition (1991). 129 pp., L50.00. Eleven chapters arranged by country (excluding the U.K.), providing details of: published market research studies, marketing and advertising journals, trade journals, statistical series on trade and industry, online sources of market data, subscription services, trade and o&al bodies; in addition to the most important industries and leading media and marketing organizations. Guide to European Company Il!formation: EC Countries, 4th Edition (1990), 127 pp., L50.00. Twelve country chapters providing details of the registration and disclosure procedures in each member state, together with descriptions of relevant online databases and directories for each country; as well as details of report/credit-rating agencies.
International Business Studies: An Overview, Edited by PETERJ. BUCKLEY and MICHAEL Z. BROOKE, Blackwcll(1992), 623 pp., L75.00. An impresive survey of the body of knowledge related to international business, with sections dealing with: The theories relevant to international trade and investment; The framework of international trade; The institutions of world trade; International investment; International management; and International business teaching and research. Invaluable for a Business School library but too expensive for use as a student text. The need for more concerted international attention to bc given to the question of agreed guidelines for state support to R & D, greater international convergence of policies relating to competition and foreign investment, more analysis of structural differences between national economies and the accessibility of technology for third countries is provided in Strategic Industries in a Global Economy: Policy hues for the 199Os, OECD International Futures Programmc (1991), 106 pp., FF120. But no rcfcrcncc to Porter in the brief biography and it is a pity that these documents still have such an academic, rather than managerial, approach. A detailed cast study of one particular industry is provided in Competition in the Swiss Plastics Manufacturing Industry: A Group Analysis Based on Micro-Micro Considerations, FRED VON GUNTEN, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg (1991), 403 pp., DMIOO. But pity that the presentation was not more rcadcr friendly.