de Gruyter Studies in Organization

Latest release: January 20, 2020
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No detailed description available for "The Japanese Industrial System".
The Japanese Industrial System: Edition 3
Book 1 · Oct 2012 ·
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Political Management: Redefining the Public Sphere
Book 2 · Nov 2017 ·
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Limits to Bureaucratic Growth
Book 3 · Jun 2013 ·
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International Business in the Middle East
Book 5 · Oct 2015 ·
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Chapter 6. International Technology Transfer in the Middle East -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Increasing Importance of International Technology Transfer -- 6.3 The Problems in Conceptualising International Technology Transfer -- 6.4 The Channels of International Technology Transfer -- 6.5 International Technology Transfer in the Middle East -- Part Two Management Practices -- Chapter 7. International Business and the Middle East: Recent Developments and Prospects -- 7.1 Industrialization, Modernity and Social Change: A Major Issue of Concern -- 7.2 Inflow of Foreign Workers and Technicians -- 7.3 Subcontracting: A Mode for the Development of Local Enterprise -- 7.4 Third World Linkages -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Managerial Practices in the Middle East -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Theoretical Explanation of Management Styles -- 8.3 Empirical Analysis -- 8.4 Research Method -- 8.5 Findings -- 8.6 Conclusions and Policy Implications -- Chapter 9. The Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) and Saudi Society: A Study in Interaction -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Purpose of the Study -- 9.3 Research Focus and Methods -- 9.4 Results and Discussion -- Chapter 10. The Relationship Between Managerial Decision Styles and Work Satisfaction in Saudi Arabia -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Research Propositions -- 10.3 Research Methodology -- 10.4 Research Results -- 10.5 Managerial Implications -- 10.6 Conclusions -- 10.7 Suggestions For Future Research -- Chapter 11. Cultural Marginality in the Arab World: Implications for Western Marketers -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Nature and Origin of Arab Marginality -- 11.3 Arab Ambivalence: A Love/Hate Relationship -- 11.4 Implications for International Marketers of the West -- 11.5 Conclusions -- Part Three Marketing Practices -- Chapter 12. Consumer Market Environment in the Middle East -- 12.1 Introduction
The American Samurai: Blending American and Japanese Managerial Practices
Book 6 · Jun 2013 ·
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Organizing Industrial Development
Book 7 · Jun 2013 ·
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Organization Theory and Technocratic Consciousness: Rationality, Ideology and Quality of Work
Book 8 · Feb 2018 ·
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Anglo-American Innovation
Book 9 · Aug 2015 ·
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9.6 American System of Manufactures in Context -- 10 The American Market: A Key Base from 1870 to the 1960s -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 An Integrated World-Economy -- 10.2.1 World-Economy -- 10.2.2 Infrastructure: Transport and Information -- 10.3 Design, Administrative Structures and Corporate Education -- 10.3.1 Design -- 10.3.2 Administrative Sciences -- 10.3.3 Corporate Education and Training -- 10.4 Market Control and the Modem Enterprise -- 10.4.1 Agribusiness -- 10.4.2 Cigarette Industry 1880-1900 -- 10.4.3 Electricals, Chemicals and Automobiles -- 10.5 Innovation as a Filiere: Imitation and Rigidities -- 11 British Systems of Organizing: A Case of Incomplete Modernization? -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Loose-Coupling and Devolvement in Work Organization -- 11.2.1 Introduction -- 11.2.2 Colonies, Trading Companies and Professions -- 11.2.3 Rationalisation and Bureaucracy -- 11.2.4 Forms of Payment and Skill Ownership -- 11.3 Markets and Sectors -- 11.3.1 Commerce and Shipping -- 11.3.2 Cotton and Cigarettes -- 11.3.3 Cars, Chemicals and Electricals -- 12 Transatlantic Evolvement II: Britain and the Appropriation Gap -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Administrative Innovations -- 12.2.1 Taylorism: Work Study -- 12.2.2 Organization Development (OD) -- 12.2.3 The Multidivisional Form (MDF) -- 12.2.4 Plantwide Productivity Schemes -- 12.3 Technological Innovations -- 12.3.1 Automobile Assembly Lines in the 1920s -- 12.3.2 Information Technology: 1970s and 1980s -- 12.4 Management Education -- 12.5 Assessment -- Part IV. Implications -- 13 Japan and the Pacific Rim: The New Competition -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Structuration: Framework -- 13.2.1 Geopolitical -- 13.2.2 New World-Economy: JUSA -- 13.2.3 Structuration -- 13.3 Appropriation Rather than Imitation/Rejection -- 13.4 Markets and Knowledge -- 13.4.1 Current Strengths -- 13.4.2 Markets
Unemployment: Theory, Policy and Structure
Book 10 · Nov 2017 ·
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Organization of Innovation: East-West Perspectives
Book 11 · Sep 2017 ·
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Innovation and Management: International Comparisons
Book 13 · Feb 2018 ·
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Leadership and Management in Universities: Britain and Nigeria
Book 14 · Nov 2017 ·
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Boards of Directors under Public Ownership: A Comparative Perspective
Book 15 · Nov 2017 ·
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The State, Trade Unions and Self-Management: Issues of Competence and Control
Book 16 · Sep 2015 ·
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Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The Role of Competence in Participation, Workers' Control, and Self-Management -- Part I: Participation and Co-Determination -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 - "Worker Participation" in the United States: A Preliminary Analysis of Quality of Work Life Programs -- Chapter 3 - The Law as a Force for Change -- Chapter 4 - Co-Determination in the Federal Republic of Germany: An Appraisal of a Secular Experience -- Chapter 5 - A Political Bargaining Theory of Co-Determination -- Part II: Worker Co-operatives and Labour-Owned Firms -- Introduction -- Chapter 6 - The Role of Support Organisations in Developing Worker Co-operatives: A Model for Promoting Economic and Industrial Democracy? -- Chapter 7 - Consulting for Second Order Change -- Chapter 8 - Self-Management in Wales: Trade Union Encouragement of Worker Co-operatives -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 10 - New Work Processes, Unregulated Capitalism and the Future of Labour -- Chapter 11 - Belgian Unionism and Self-Management -- Chapter 12 - Trade Unions and the Challenge of Modernisation and Computerisation in France -- Chapter 13 - Technical Change and Informal Participation: The Role of Competence and Control in Administrative Work -- Part IV: The State and Self-Management -- Introduction -- Chapter 14 - Limited Expertise and Local Autonomy -- Chapter 15 - Organizations and Society: On Power Relationships -- Chapter 16 - The Impact of State Intervention on Workers' Control: A Case Study of Autogestion in Algeria -- Part V: Education and Competence -- Introduction -- Chapter 17 - An Inter-Organizational Analysis of Competence
Organization Theory and Class Analysis: New Approaches and New Issues
Book 17 · Nov 2017 ·
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Strategies for Retrenchment and Turnaround: The Politics of Survival
Book 18 · Nov 2017 ·
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Organizational Symbolism
Book 19 · May 2014 ·
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Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures
Book 20 · Oct 2010 ·
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"Selected papers from a conference held in Hong Kong in April 1988, titled 'Firms, Management, the State and Economic Cultures'. It was organized within the Department of Management Studies of the University of Hong Kong under the auspices of APROS (Australian and Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies)"--Preface
The Third Sector: Comparative Studies of Nonprofit Organizations
Book 21 · Jun 2013 ·
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The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism
Book 22 · Feb 2013 ·
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