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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828102603321

Titolo

Assessing partnership : the prospects for, and challenges of, modernisation / / guest editors, Miguel Martinez Lucio and Mark Stuart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2002

ISBN

1-280-47881-0

9786610478811

1-84544-624-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (119 p.)

Collana

Employee relations ; ; v.24, no. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

Martinez LucioMiguel

StuartMark

Disciplina

658.042

Soggetti

Business enterprises

Personnel management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Abstracts and keywords -- About the Guest Editors -- Assessing partnership -- The two faces of partnership? -- ''Working together - involving staff'' -- Partnership and process in the maritime construction industry -- Assessing the principles of partnership -- The contingencies of partnership -- Partnership, ownership and control -- Book reviews -- Internet news.

Sommario/riassunto

The politics, institutions and '''market'' for partnership. Partnership working has become synonymous with the contemporary political project of ''modernisation''. It has underpinned the ideology and rhetoric of the Labour Government and shaped its relations with the institutions of capital and business representation (White, 2001).