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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part 1. The Challenge: Problems as Contestable Issues -- 1. Introduction: Issues and Context -- 2. Analyzing the Public Sector: Shortcomings of Policy Science and Political Analysis -- 3. Analyzing the Public Sector: The Received View in Economics and its Shortcomings -- 4. Responding to Citizens' Needs: From Bureaucratic Accountability to Individual Coproduction in the Public Sector -- Part 2. The Public Sector: Constitutional and Conceptual Problems -- 5. Development of the Public Sector: Trends and Issues -- 6. The Modern State: Continental Traditions -- 7. Constitutional Considerations with Particular Reference to Federal Systems -- 8. The Blurring of the Distinction "State Versus Society" in the Idea and Practice of the Welfare State -- 9. The Hidden Public Sector: The 'Quangocratization' of the World? -- 10. Measuring the Public Sector: A Contestable Issue -- Part 3. Guidance, Control, and Evaluation as Conditions for Learning -- 11. The Relationship between Guidance, Control, and Evaluation -- 12. Coordination of Administrative Controls: Institutional Challenges for Operational Tasks -- 13. Two Decades of Implementation Research: From Control to Guidance and Learning -- 14. Generating Knowledge and Refining Experience: The Task of Evaluation -- 15. The Ethical Context of Bureaucracy and Performance Analysis -- 16. A Cybernetic View of Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector -- 17. Concepts of Control over Public Bureaucracies: 'Comptrol' and 'Interpolate Balance' -- Part 4. Comparing Institutional Forms of Coordination -- 18. Markets and Hierarchies: About the Dialectics of their Antagonism and Compatibility -- 19. Solidarity and Markets Reconsidered: Cum, Versus, or What? -- 20. Comparing Solidarity, Hierarchy, and Markets: Institutional Arrangements for the Coordination of Actions -- 21. Votes and Vetoes -- 22. Professionalism and Mutual Adjustment -- 23 Interorganizational Policy Coordination: Arrangements of Shared Government -- 24. A Method of Institutional Analysis and an Application to Multiorganizational Arrangements -- 25. Interorganizational Networks and Control: A Critical Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter
Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life -- Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations -- Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources -- Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts -- Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication -- Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design -- The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration -- Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts -- Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts -- Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies -- Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems -- Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon -- The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems -- Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership -- Part III: Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts -- The C.E.O. as Corporate Myth-Maker: Negotiating the Boundaries of Work and Play at Domino's Pizza Company -- Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery -- The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream -- Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control -- The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts -- Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control -- Failed Artifacts -- Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts -- Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory -- The Authors -- Backmatter
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: The Role of Competence in Participation, Workers' Control, and Self-Management -- Part I: Participation and Co-Determination -- Introduction -- 2. "Worker Participation" in the United States: A Preliminary Analysis of Quality of Work Life Programs -- 3. The Law as a Force for Change -- 4. Co-Determination in the Federal Republic of Germany - An Appraisal of a Secular Experience -- 5. A Political Bargaining Theory of Co-Determination -- Part II. Worker Co-operatives and Labour-Owned Firms -- Introduction -- 6. The Role of Support Organisations in Developing Worker Co-operatives: A Model for Promoting Economic and Industrial Democracy? -- 7. Consulting for Second Order Change -- 8. Self-Management in Wales: Trade Union Encouragement of Worker Co-operatives -- 9. The Possibilities and Limits of Self-Management in Cameroonian Enterprises: The Case of an Artisanal Co-operative in the Building Trade -- Part III. Economic Change, Labour, and the Unions -- Introduction -- 10. New Work Processes, Unregulated Capitalism and the Future of Labour -- 11. Belgian Unionism and Self-Management1 -- 12. Trade Unions and the Challenge of Modernisation and Computerisation in France -- 13. Technical Change and Informal Participation: The Role of Competence and Control in Administrative Work -- Part IV. The State and Self-Management -- Introduction -- 14. Limited Expertise and Local Autonomy -- 15. Organizations and Society: On Power Relationships -- 16. The Impact of State Intervention on Workers' Control: A Case Study of Autogestion in Algeria -- Part V. Education and Competence -- Introduction -- 17. An Inter-Organizational Analysis of Competence -- 18. The Prospects of Industrial Democracy in the Context of the Proposed New Educational Policy in India -- 19. Cooperation Between Universities and Unions -- 20. Conclusion: Competence and Organizational Democracy: Concluding Reflections -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter
Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Unemployment: Economic and Statistical Aspects -- A Critical Assessment of Some Recent Approaches to the Theory of Unemployment -- A General Equilibrium View of Unemployment -- Employment Relations and Employment Processes -- Transitions Between Labour-Market States - An Empirical Analysis Using Danish Data -- The End of Expansion in Employment in Germany: Beginnings of an Attempt at Evaluation of Structural Unemployment as a Partial Component of Joblessness -- Multiple Spells of Unemployment - The Danish Experience -- Turnover and Employment Among Youth: Causes of the Particular Problems of Youth Employment -- Short- and Long-Run Consequences of Shorter Working Hours -- Deregulation, Structured Labour Markets and Unemployment -- Unemployment, the Labour Queue and Positive Feedback in the Labour Market -- Part II. Unemployment: Sociological, Medical and Psychological Aspects -- Unemployment and Trade Unions in Britain: the Politics of Industrial Relations in the Crisis -- Trade Union Strategy Towards Unemployment at the Local Level -- Youth Employment in the United States: Problem, Structure, Policy -- Implementation of Danish Youth Employment Policy -- Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany: Recent Empirical Evidence -- Some Health Effects of the Closure of a Danish Shipyard a Three-Year Follow-Up Study -- Unemployment and the Cultures of Young Women -- Female Unemployment and Knowledge of Self -- 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 -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Capitalist-Socialist Dialogue on Organizational Behaviour -- Part I. Perspectives -- 1. Paradigms and Understandings in Comparative Organizational Research -- 2. Towards Socialist-Capitalist Comparisons of the Organizational Problem -- 3. Four Structural Problems of the Modern Enterprise: Similarities and Differences in Capitalist and Socialist Countries -- 4. Information Technology and Organizational Choice -- Part II. Innovation and the Organization -- 5. Strategic Management of Innovation in Large Czechoslovak Firms -- 6. Attitudes and Motivation of Production Managers in the Management of Technological Innovation -- 7. New Technology and New Supervisory Roles in U.K. Manufacturing Industry -- 8. Organizations and the Computer Culture: The Mismanagement of Meaning? -- Part III. Innovation and the Social Environment -- 9. Variants of the Socialist Economic Management System in Eastern Europe -- 10. The Social Frame of Innovation: The Example of Yugoslavia -- 11. Industrial Relations and High Technology: The Transformation of Telecommunications Through Deregulation -- 12. Technical Innovation and Economic Reform in Socialist Economies with Special Reference to China -- 13. Managerial Practices and Patterns of Employee Behaviour in the Soviet Enterprise -- 14. "Democracy" in Worker-Owned Enterprises: The U. S. Experience -- The Authors
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Organization Theory- A Contribution to our Understanding of the Visible Hand -- Part I. Industrial Dynamics - Some General Problems -- The World Productivity Growth Slump -- Organizational Economy - The Politics of Unanimity and Suppressed Competition -- Economic Growth and Decision-Making in Japan: The Duality of Visible and Invisible Guiding Hands -- Industry, Government and the Public - The Public Role of Big Corporations -- Mental Standardization and Industrial Development -- Part II. Industrial Development - Interrelations Between the Private and the Public Sector -- Governmental Influence Upon Decision Making in Organizations in the Private and Public Sectors in Britain -- Industrial Policy - Control and Dependence in a Systems Perspective -- Industrial Policy as Implementation or Legitimation -- Innovation in Industrial Policy Sectors - The Cases of Remote Sensing and Bioenergy -- Politics in Business - The Interaction Between Environment and Strategy Formulation -- Part III. Strategies for Industrial Development -- Leadership for new Business Conditions -- Innovation Management in Diversified Corporations: Problems of Organization -- Strategie Product Exit - The Organizing of Product Disinvestment -- The Impact of Electronic Communications on Organizations -- Third World, Third Wave? On the Information Society as a Model for Developing Countries -- Part IV. Research and Change -- How We Decide and How We Act - On the Assumptions of Viking Organization Theory -- Theories of Choice and Making Decisions? -- A Philosophy of Rationalization - The Polish Praxiology of T. Kotarbinski -- Towards a Control Theory of the Firm -- Why the World Needs Organizational Design -- Walter Goldberg's Biography -- The Authors -- Backmatter
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
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
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