Böcker av Geoffrey Wood

A deal gone bad, possibly deadly, can Pete uncover the truth in time to save his missing friend? In a tumultuous year, Pete Gregg's life takes an unexpected turn when he reconnects with his old friend, Neal Calder, in Montreal. With a failing marriage and a divorce looming, Pete seizes the opportunity to join Neal in Vancouver, where he's become a successful promoter in the volatile stock market. However, their reunion takes a dark twist as Pete delves into a web of scams and organized crime, with Neal's life hanging in the balance. Pete must navigate a treacherous world where business and gang activities collide, racing against time to rescue his friend from the shadows. Set against the real-life backdrop of the notorious Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the VSE became a hub of fraudulent, unethical and illegal activities, Pacific Rain will take you on a gripping, suspenseful journey through the streets of Vancouver and its North Shore.

This book explores IHRM practices in the contexts of high uncertainties. It encompasses situations of financial crisis, political and civil uncertainty, environmental collapse and recession.The chapters were originally published as special issue of The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. This book also explores the capacity of trade unions to affect political policies to ensure greater accountability and fairness. It looks at the nature and extent of which internal representative democracy actually operates within trade unions themselves.

Presents the many different dimensions to national corporate governance regimes, encompassing the legal, the political, the economic, and the social behaviour. While there is much debate within the literature as to which is the most important aspect of each, this monograph provides a basis to evaluate this burgeoning literature.

Trade Unions and Democracy explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy