The recent Global Financial Crisis has focused our attention on the integrity of rating agencies. Often condemned for being too slow to act, rating agencies have been blamed during many financial crises. This impression opens some research questions addressed in this paper. What are the...

The paper addresses how corporate ownership influences and constrains managerial decision-making in industrial relations and HRM. The specific focus is stock-market listed companies, and the argument that the ownership of these firms tends to be associated with various labour management...