Fashions a new way of defending the importance of economic regulation.

Grapples with a variety of policy issues in order to provoke a discussion of the state of higher education in the 21st century.

Assesses recent civil service reforms undertaken by state governments.

Measures the relationship between market competition and the treatment of women, minorities, and the disabled in the workplace.

Argues that institutional context drives economic globalization in the United States and Britain.

Contests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions.

Examines how small firms, like large ones, are mobilizing to compete in a global economy.

Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Argues that recent initiatives by industrial management were directed more toward short-term gains than improving efficiency.

Chronicles the growing impact of job uncertainty on workers in Europe.

Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization, particularly its impact on women and other workers.

Examines the nature of international economic leadership since the seventeenth century.

Looks at alternatives to international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.

The impact of internet technologies on international politics.

Examines the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany since 1989.

Scholars and practitioners explore American government performance management offering diverse views.

Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.

Essays on how organizations effectively communicate strategy to optimize performance.

In-depth case study of Costa Rican economic reform efforts.

Traces the history of European monetary negotiations from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Explores the university’s altering landscape, the conflicts over its core values and legitimacy, and the challenge for the university to negotiate the new landscape and to redefine itself within a larger educational context.

Defines, analyzes, critiques, and proposes new policy solutions for achieving sustainable development.

Describes how private-sector management strategies can help governments obtain greater access to global resources, create more jobs, and provide better social services to their citizens.

Identifies eight new competencies that will be required by twenty-first century leaders, and profiles twelve up-and-coming leaders who exemplify them.

Examines the evolution of corporate form and managerial process from the 1880s to the 1990s, detailing how corporations influenced government to affect changes in response to economic transitions.