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1. Varieties of Human Resource Management

   A Comparative Study of the Relationship between the Context and the Firm

   By Geoffrey Wood, Chris Brewster, Mick Brookes, Richard Croucher

   Series: Global HRM

   This volume brings together the literature on comparative capitalism with that on comparative HRM. Founded on rigorous cross national survey evidence, it explores differences and similarities in key areas of work and employment relations within and between regions and countries. Much of the...

   To Be Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Reforming the Governance of the Financial Sector

   Edited by David Mayes, Geoffrey Wood

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   Many financial institutions have in recent years failed – failed either completely, and gone into bankruptcy, or failed in the sense that they have not achieved what their owners or their customers expected them to deliver. This has had significant and adverse effects on customers, taxpayers,...

   To Be Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Designing Central Banks

   Edited by David Mayes, Geoffrey E Wood

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society. This book starts by considering how and why in general central banks evolved and specifically the special aspects of the contribution of the Northern European Central Banking Tradition. With that foundation, the book will then...

   Published September 30th 2011 by Routledge
4. Capitalist Diversity and Diversity within Capitalism

   Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Christel Lane

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   The economic crisis that began in 2008 has underscored the impact not only of embedded and assumed ways of managing the economy, but also that present circumstances are the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both that forms a central...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Policy Makers on Policy

   The Mais Lectures, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Forrest Capie, Geoffrey Wood

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics, and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much has changed. This new edition collects contributions from leading policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary...

   Published June 1st 2011 by Routledge
6. Monetary and Banking History

   Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie

   Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Terence Mills, Nicholas Crafts

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   Forrest Capie is an eminent economic historian who has published extensively on a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on banking and monetary history, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in other areas such as tariffs and the interwar economy. He is also a former...

   Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Great Depression

   Edited by Geoffrey E. Wood, Forrest Capie

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   The Great Depression had a devastating effect on much of the world’s developed economies. (For example, at its nadir, around one-quarter of the US workforce was unemployed. And, in Britain, exports virtually halved by 1933 as international trade collapsed.) The political and cultural consequences...

   Published November 15th 2010 by Routledge
8. Human Resource Management

   A Critical Approach

   Edited by David G. Collings, Geoffrey Wood

   Effective management of human resources is essential to the success of any organization. In this authoritative, sophisticated and engaging new text on Human Resource Management, an international team of leading analysts guides the advanced student through this fundamental discipline of management...

   Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge
9. The Structure of Financial Regulation

   Edited by David Mayes, Geoffrey E. Wood

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   This book examines the area of financial regulation in the banking sector. Editors Mayes and Wood bring together such acadmics as Charles Goodhart, Charles Calomiris and Kern Alexander whose expertise shines through this volume to provide a reference tool for researchers, students and bankers...

   Published January 17th 2007 by Routledge
10. Institutional Change in the Payments System and Monetary Policy

    By Stefan W. Schmitz, Geoffrey Wood

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

    "Central bankers worldwide welcome the recent increase of research on payment systems. This volume, providing an expert overview on this timely subject, should be required reading for us all". - Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland Monetary policy has been at the centre of economic...

    Published May 3rd 2006 by Routledge