It is often held that Japan's industrial progress is associated with weak unions and cultural uniqueness. It is the author's contention, however, that they depend much more heavily upon long-term corporate human resource strategies, conscientiously applied. The article describes how these...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Programme Committee -- Chairmen -- Discussants -- Part I. Fundamental Problems and the Epistemology of Value Research -- Fundamental Values of Western Democracies / Schwan, Alexander -- The Explanation of Values. Problems and Approaches / Opp, Karl-Dieter --...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- A. The Future of the Working Society -- The Future of the Working Society / Fiirstenberg, Friedrich -- Labour as Factor of Production or Yardstick for Distribution / Blum, Reinhard -- B. Theoretical Approaches to the Analysis...

This book provides rigorous analysis of the wide range of questions surrounding the role of international institutions in governing global business, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs). The analysis, both theoretical and empirical, focuses on the corporate governance of MNEs and to what...

Over the past decade, both federal and provincial Canadian governments have become actively interested and involved in manpower forecasting exercises. Initiatives by both the Economic Council of Canada and the Federal Department of Employment and Immigration were in large measure a response to...

In the following description and comparison of the nature, role, content and economic importance of industrial‐type training across a number of industrialised countries, an attempt is made to relate empirical material on industrial training available from a number of international and national...

Over the past 5–8 years most industrialised countries in Western Europe have experienced a rapid expansion of labour market regulations with a long list of new proposals awaiting legislation. In the field of education and training the rationale behind many of these anticipatory, preventive,...

The article deals with factors that act as an incentive to internationalisation of the hotels in the small‐to‐medium‐sized enterprises (SME) category in the traditional tourism countries, and also discusses the obstacles to internationalisation. The “OLI” approach according to Dunning...

The paper is concerned with the tourism industry's increased demand for better educated and/or trained manpower and the general requirements of higher levels of know‐how on account of secular changes in the demand for higher quality tourism products, technological changes and a more...

Purpose – As the population of the western world is aging, the importance of seniors for the tourism economy is growing. Seniors are expected to be an important future market. Thus overall leisure behaviour in general, and travel and tourism behaviour in particular, are analysed for the...