Gospel and Pendleton have written a broad descriptive view of governance and labour management. Indeed, their book provides the reader with an examination of a multitude of governance issues and practices in a variety of national settings. The book emphasizes comparison, both between market and stakeholder views of the firm and among national governance systems. Resulting from a series of academic seminars, the authors present a set of case studies dealing with governance practices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan. The book is written from the market/country level of analysis and describes aggregate trends in governance in the respective countries. The structure of the text is very straightforward - each chapter is similar in form and similar in terms of content themes- dealing with a focal country and its dominant form of governance. Central among the themes of the book is the observation that the traditional categorization of market versus relational systems is overly simplistic in explaining governance changes in the world’s leading markets.