Books in the De Gruyter Studies in Organization series

The text presents inquiries into the contemporary world economy, namely: the economic success of East Asia; political and organizational restructuring in Western, industrial countries; and the post-communist transformation process in former centrally planned economies.

The reader provides an insight into the importance of the organizational and cultural aspects of cross-national mergers and acquisitions.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Asia-Pacific Economy -- Chapter 2: Singapore -- Chapter 3: Korea -- Chapter 4: Taiwan -- Chapter 5: Hong Kong -- Chapter 6: Labour and Industry in East Asia -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables. List of figures -- Introduction -- Part I. Symbolic Aspects of Organizations -- Chapter 1. Painting Over Old Works: The Culture of Organization in an Age of Technical Rationality -- Chapter 2. Interrelations Between Corporate Culture and Municipal Culture: The Lüneburg Saltworks as a Medieval Example -- Chapter 3. Corporate Culture, the Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Quebec Experience -- Chapter 4. Dependency and Worker Flirting -- Chapter 5. Culture and Crisis Management in an English Prison -- Part II. Power as a Symbolic Domain -- Chapter 6. Zombies or People - What Is the Product of Work? Some Considerations About the Relation Between Human and Nonhuman Systems in Regard to the Socio-Technical-Systems Paradigm -- Chapter 7. Organizations as Networks of Power and Symbolism -- Chapter 8. Crashing in '87: Power and Symbolism in the Dow -- Part III. Management, Consultancy, and Metaphor -- Chapter 9. Merchants of Meaning: Management Consulting in the Swedish Public Sector -- Chapter 10. Metaphor Management: On the Semiotics of Strategic Leadership -- Chapter 11. Culture and Management Training: Closed Minds and Change in Managers Belonging to Organizational and Occupational Communities -- Chapter 12. The 'Commando' Model: A Way to Gather and Interpret Cultural Data -- Part IV. Style and Aesthetics -- Chapter 13. The Collusive Manoeuvre: A Study of Organizational Style in Work Relations -- Chapter 14. Aesthetics and Organizational Skill -- Part V. Whole Organizations -- Chapter 15. Computers in Organizations: The (White) Magic of the Black Box -- Chapter 16. The Organizational Sensory System -- Chapter 17. The Dynamics of Organizational States of Being -- Part VI. Against Conclusions: Comments on Theory and Post-Modernism -- Chapter 18. Seeing Through: Symbolic Life and Organization Research in a Postmodern Frame -- Chapter 19. Organizational Bricolage -- Authors' Biographical Notes -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures / Clegg, Siewart R. / Gordon Redding, S. -- Part I Capitalism's Cultures - Lessons from Asia? -- 'Post-Confucianism', Social Democracy and Economic Culture / Clegg, Stewart R. / Higgins, Winton / Spybey, Tony -- Beyond Bureaucracy: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Forms of Economic Resource Co-ordination and Control / Gordon Redding, S. / Whitley, Richard D. -- The Network Structures of East Asian Economies / Hamilton, Gary G. / Zeile, William / Kim, Wan-Jin -- The Embodiment of Industrial Culture in Bureaucracy and Management / Wilks, Stephen -- Centrifugal Versus Centripetal Growth Processes: Contrasting Ideal Types for Conceptualizing the Developmental Patterns of Chinese and Japanese Firms / Tam, Simon -- Part II Regulation and De-Regulation -- Corporate Governance: A Ripple on the Cultural Reflection / Tricker, Robert I. -- Accounting: The Private Language of Business or an Instrument of Social Communication? / Standish, Peter E. M. -- Deregulation and Degradation in Managerial Work / Lewis, Malcolm / McGregor, Alan -- Part III Blockages and Breakthroughs in Organizational Adaptation -- Efficiency, Ideology and Tradition in the Choice of Transactions Governance Structures: The Case of China as a Modernizing Society / Boisot, Max / Child, John -- Organizational Change and Stability in Japanese Factories: 1976-1983 / Marsh, Robert M. / Mannari, Hiroshi -- Japanese Influences on British Industrial Culture / Wilkinson, Barry / Oliver, Nick -- The Dwarves of Capitalism: The Structure of Production and the Economic Culture of the Small Manufacturing Firm / Marceau, Jane -- Part IV Culture's Consequences: Values in Action -- The Cash Value of Confucian Values / Bond, Michael Harris / Hofstede, Geert -- Ethnicity and Religion in the Development of Family Capitalism: Seui-Seung-Yahn Immigrants from Hong Kong to Scotland / Acton, Thomas A. -- Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in the USA and Asia / Woolsey Biggart, Nicole -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Part One. International Business Concepts in the Middle East -- Chapter 1. International Business in the Middle East -- Chapter 2. Comparative Study of Marketing and Management Systems in the Middle East -- Chapter 3. Managerial Gap Analysis: A Frame of Reference for Improving International Business Relations with the Middle East -- Chapter 4. Political Risk Assessment by Multinationals in the Middle East: Past Research, Current Methods, and a New Framework -- Chapter 5. International Diversification and Investments in the Middle East -- Chapter 6. International Technology Transfer in the Middle East -- Part Two. Management Practices -- Chapter 7. International Business and the Middle East: Recent Developments and Prospects -- Chapter 8. Managerial Practices in the Middle East -- Chapter 9. The Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) and Saudi Society: A Study in Interaction -- Chapter 10. The Relationship Between Managerial Decision Styles and Work Satisfaction in Saudi Arabia -- Chapter 11. Cultural Marginality in the Arab World: Implications for Western Marketers -- Part Three. Marketing Practices -- Chapter 12. Consumer Market Environment in the Middle East -- Chapter 13. An Analysis of the Current Status of Marketing in the Middle East -- Chapter 14. An Export Marketing Model for Developing Middle Eastern Countries: What Lessons Countries of the Region Learn from Each Other -- Chapter 15. The Prospects for Export Marketing to Egypt -- Part Four. The Future of International Business in the Middle East -- Chapter 16. Future Directions for Marketing and Management in the Middle East -- References -- The Editor -- The Authors -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter