Midwest Air Group Makes Board Appointments.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-18 February 2008-Midwest Air Group Makes Board Appointments(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Midwest Air Group, parent company of Midwest Airlines, has announced appointments to its new board of directors. The board will oversee the strategy and performance of the company, which was...

Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea: Reforming the Chaebol.
ECONOMIC CRISIS AND CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING IN KOREA: Reforming the Chaebol. Edited by Stephan Haggard, Wonhyuk Lim and Euysung Kim. Cambridge (England): Cambridge University Press. 2003. xxii, 342 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$60.00, cloth. ISBN 0-521-82363-3. How did the financial crisis affect South Korea's famous and sometimes infamous business...

Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism.
JAPAN REMODELED: How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism. By Steven K. Vogel. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. 250 pp. (Tables, graphs, figures.) US$37.50, cloth. ISBN 0-8014-4449-4. The Japanese economy has gone sadly out of fashion after the bursting of the bubble and the...

Do you have career insurance?
Editor's Note: In this issue of the Journal, we feature a guest column in place of the President's Message. Because President Collins is attending to circumstances that preclude his ability to write a column for this issue, we have decided to publish a commentary by another board member, Region...

Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan.
PERSPECTIVES ON WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY IN JAPAN. Edited by Peter Matanle and Wim Lunsing. Basingstoke (England) and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xiii, 271 pp. (Figures, tables.) US$21.25, cloth. ISBN 0-230-00200-5. Literature on the Japanese employment system has, over the last few years, moved with the...

Corporate unionism and labor market flexibility in South Korea.
There is significant variance in the strategies of labor market flexibility under the same pressure of globalization. This article attempts to explain that variance by examining closely the Korean case, with particular attention to the response of labor, one of the most intractable actors in the reform process. After...

The birth of a welfare state in Korea: the unfinished symphony of democratization and globalization.
Globalization pressured a rebirth of the state in Korea, but in an unexpected direction. Whereas the welfare state retrenched in Western Europe under pressures of the borderless global economy, (1) the Korean state reinvented itself into the guardian of public welfare. That regime shift occurred when the "Asian crisis"...

Union strategies in privatizations: Shakespeare-inspired alternatives.
INTRODUCTION Antony: Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall!(1) This article focuses on the strategic choices available to public sector unions facing privatization, and explores several alternative approaches that a union may wish to consider at the outset...

The past and future of electricity regulation.
By 2006-2011, electricity will be purchased and sold in both wholesale and eligible retail markets by any willing creditworthy participant. Markets will clear with competitive prices. Competitive prices will function so as to ration existing supplies efficiently in the short run and to elicit adequate technology and infrastructure in...

Divesting losers: chipping away at integrated delivery systems. (Management).
THE DAYS OF HEALTH system mergers and acquisitions may be fading fast as integrated delivery systems (IDSs) scramble to shed losers and ease serious financial pressures. A large number of IDSs already divested unprofitable physician practices, provider-sponsored HMOs, long-term care facilities and mental health programs. ...