The book explores the challenges faced by disabled individuals and those with learning difficulties during their transition from school to further education or employment. It highlights the stress and frustration they encounter, as well as the limited job options available to them. Central to the narrative is the theme of their ongoing struggle for choice and autonomy in a world filled with obstacles beyond their control.
The debate over corporate governance, or how companies are controlled, has flourished vigorously for several years in the U.S. and has now spread to the U.K. This book collects papers by leading academics, bankers, and consultants which discuss major issues in corporate governance in the U.K., Germany, and Japan. It examines the role of shareholders, company boards, and managers under a market-based system as exists in the U.K. and the U.S. in comparison with the insider system found in Japan and, to a lesser extent, Germany. The issue of the effectiveness of the British system and how it might be made more efficient through increasing the accountability of company boards to shareholders, both directly and via the capital market, is extensively discussed.