'This is an incisive analysis of the diverse ways that corporations mediate the impact on workers of recent changes in market competition. It is grounded in empirical reality via case studies of corporate governance in Australian companies and surveys of their directors. Theorists who emphasize national institutions, including legal systems, cannot explain why some companies treat their employees as assets and others as commodities. That's why this book is so important.' Sanford M. Jacoby, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 'Law, Corporate Governance and Partnerships at Work makes a fundamental contribution to the understanding of the role of the legal system in shaping corporate governance and workplace relations. It combines a wide-ranging theoretical inquiry with closely-focused empirical work which reveals the dynamics at play in this area of contemporary capitalism, as highlighted by the Australian case.' Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge, UK 'Drawing on the results of an extensive five-year research project, the authors empirically test a range of possible dependencies, and convincingly demonstrate the degree of heterogeneity which characterises different phenomena the law may seek to regulate.' Industrial Law Journal