Books Reviewed Jerard F. Kehow (ed), Managing Selection in Changing Organizations: Human Resource Strategies Paul Sparrow and Mick Marchington (eds), Human Resource Management: The New Agenda Liz Whalley and Mike Smith, Deception in Selection Robert W. Eder and Michael M. Harris (eds), The...

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet the demands of the financial markets drives stock...