...Chris Rees Purpose The article considers the utility of a pluralist perspective in the context of current debates around UK corporate governance reform. Oxford School pluralism advanced both a description of how industrial relations (IR) operated in practice plus a prescription for how it should...

... linked to media scrutiny and decision-makers’ value sets. Accountability Corporate governance Executive pay Qualitative methods Reward Top pay Pay-related industrial disputes are continuously in the UK headlines. The backdrop of the country's ‘heat or eat’ dilemma and levels...

... relations between corporate leaders and the investment community). The social construction of corporate governance by “City grandees” (Perkins, 2017 , p. 80) may thus reflect professionalisation, vesting only those accredited by dominant coalitions (Bowen, 2015). The classical view of the extended...

... Eastern Europe Labour relations Comparative capitalism Institutions Corporate governance The term Central and Eastern Europe is a somewhat ambiguous one. Central Europe certainly at least partly encompasses Austria and Germany, both with capitals well east of the notional Trieste meridian, both...

...Zsolt Bedo; Mehmet Dermirbag; Geoffrey Wood; Martin Upchurch; Darko Marinković Purpose This paper aims to examine the phenomenom of wild capitalism under post Communist transformation. Many commentators on post Communist transformation focus their attention on dysfunctional corporate governance...

... standards. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a survey questionnaire to provide an empirical example from a transition economy to the corporate governance literature by exploring the attitudes of the 55 board directors from 30 listed companies on the Russian Trading System (RTS) Stock Exchange...

... which are necessary and appropriate to their own company’s advancement. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Japanese management styles Corporate governance Convergence One factor possibly limiting the successful transfer of Japanese methods abroad is the fact that corporate governance in Japan...