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By collaborating, the contributors seek to clarify the dynamics of employment relations across the world today, and to set the terms of reference for a new generation of international-comparative employment research.

The Mutual Gains Enterprise is an urgent and compelling call for workplace reform, showing how American business can indeed attain world-class, sustainable competitive advantage – in addition to securing more rewarding employment for workers.

Based on interviews with hundreds of workers, this vivid portrait not only identifies weaknesses and problems in management and productivity, but offers workable solutions for making American business work well again.

Brazil’s biopharmaceutical market has experienced dramatic changes since 2000, with improvements in the performance of local firms, as well as an expansion in consumer demand and productive capacity, which have made the country the sixth largest market in the world.

The university’s role now
extends well beyond just research and education to more applied and translational work with
industry as well as more entrepreneurial activities that support new venture formations among
students and faculty.

This paper focuses mainly on the issues of supply-base concentration and increased buyer-supplier lock-in through an examination of recent trends in what is perhaps the best case of value chain modularity, product-level electronics.

This paper focuses on the Israeli case and argues that unlike India and Ireland, Israel’s competitive advantage in the IT industries, is in Research and Development (R&D).

This paper presents the results from the 2010 National Organizations Survey (NOS). The survey is
representative of U.S. full-time jobs.

Although the scale of services offshoring has likely been modest so far, it will inevitably grow and stimulate changes in the United States economy — both positive and negative — through the relocation of work and the internationalization of innovative activities.