- Asserting Europe's place
Europe as I See It Romano Prodi Cambridge, U.K. and Malden, Mass.: Polity Press/Blackwell, 2000 The European Unity movement has always been tinged with an almost religious fervor. Eurocrats Jean Monnet, Walter Hallstein, and certainly Jacques Delors, wrote and spoke about the quest for greater economic and political integration as ......
- American companies should prepare for the U.K.
entering the euro system.
The rationale for U.K. entry into the euro zone's single currency system is outlined. Effects on U.S. companies and financial institutions are explored -- whether or not the U.K. joins. Among other topics, the size and types of American business exposure are discussed, along with suitable strategies for American MNCs....
- Survey: Biz Travelers Sense Expense Abuse Crackdown
Following years of heightened cost-consciousness among corporate travel and expense managers, business travelers feel T&E policies tightening, according to a survey released last month by American Express.
- Doctor-Manager Relationships in the United States and the United Kingdom
HEADNOTE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In many developed countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, the relationships between doctors and hospital managers are strained. The purposes of this article are to examine survey data from the United States and the United Kingdom on doctor-manager relationships and to identify the sources ......
- NEWS IN BRIEF
WORKERS PRESSURED TO LET ETHICS SLIP One in four UK employees say that they've felt pressure to compromise their organization's ethical standards and one in five has noticed colleagues break the law or the organization's expected standard. These were the key findings of Ethics at Work: a national survey by ......
- The BBC'S high drama: a suicide investigation and
a showdown, with Murdoch in the wings.
Britain's "Kelly Affair"--a top weapons expert hounded into suicide, a once-popular national leader plunging in the polls, accused of fomenting an unnecessary war--is a high-stakes drama, one that features a bitter institutional conflict that could destroy the long-established balance of power between the government and the UK's most respected news ......
- The BBC's high drama
HEADNOTE A suicide investigation and a showdown, with Murdoch in the wings Britain's "Kelly Affair" - a top weapons expert hounded into suicide, a once-popular national leader plunging in the polls, accused of fomenting an unnecessary war - is a high-stakes drama, one that features a bitter institutional conflict that ......