This special issue of Women in ManagementReview presents a selection of thecontributions presented at the BritishAcademy of Management conference inSeptember 2002, hosted by MiddlesexUniversity Business School, from the''Gender and management'' track

The transition from school to work: a European perspectiveIn general, a person's employment and educational biographies do not alwaysrun smoothly and in only one direction. Interruptions often occur, or theindividual may begin to move in different or new directions

The importance of gender to the field of management research is acknowledged by the growing number of researchers in the field, and further witnessed by the increasing number of dedicated tracks at both specialized and general conferences. This e-book arises from the track on 'Gender and...

There is no doubt that we have entered a ''new economy'' - and we are not talking about globalization, new technology or the increasing pace of business any more. These factors are old hat by now. This ''new economy'' is one where people and their assets have come to the fore and where knowledge...

This ebook explores the transition from higher education into work. It reports on research undertaken over period of two years and which sought to track a number of young graduates as they completed their studies and embarked upon career of choice. Five cases are presented; the stories of five of...

The declining U.S. national saving rate has prompted economists and policymakers to ask, should the federal government encourage household saving, and if so, through which policies? In order to better understand saving programs, this volume provides a systematic and detailed description of...

In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors. Today, the United Kingdom is one of the least regulated economies in the...

During the first three decades following the Second World War, an increasingly open international trading system led to unprecedented economic growth throughout the world. But in recent years, that openness has been threatened by increased protectionism, regional trading arrangements-Europe 1992...

This is a book about traders in financial markets: what they do, the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This is also a book about how traders are managed - the best and the worst examples - and about the institutions they...

The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political history. How were the governments of Margaret Thatcher and her successors able to tame the unions? In analyzing how an entirely new...