In recent years it has been pointed out that regional unemployment disparities are much more entrenched across member states of the European Union (E.U.) than they are in the U.S. A "conventional wisdom" has emerged to the effect that this difference is due in part to the greater degree of wage...

This paper examines how american and new zealand (nz) unions have responded to the challenges of organising workers in low-wage service sectors. Different approaches to organising are examined, with particular focus on the "organising" model of unionism. American and NZ unions were found to have...

This paper investigates the origins of the shareholder-orientated corporate governance (CG) model of the US and the stakeholder-orientated model prevailing in continental Europe (exemplified by Switzerland and Germany) for most of the 20th century. We reject the most common theories, which...