Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Overseas Chinese as an Economic Culture -- The Spirit of Capitalism -- A Spirit of Chinese Capitalism? -- Chapter 2. The Sojourners -- Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore -- Indonesia -- The Philippines -- Malaysia -- Thailand -- The Nanyang --...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Organization Theory - A Contribution to Our Understanding of the Visible Hand -- Part I. Industrial Dynamics - Some General Problems -- 1. The World Productivity Growth Slump -- Some Explanations -- R&D, Technological Change, and Productivity -- What Went Wrong...

Intro -- The Logic Of Organizational Disorder: An Introduction -- Introduction -- The Emergence Of Organizational Disorder: The Garbage Can Model'S Messing With Tradition -- Parallel, Emergent Behavior -- Formal Structures And Emergent Behaviors -- Ambiguity And Loose Coupling -- Modeling...

Intro -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Aims and frames of reference -- 1.2 On multiple interpretations -- 1.3 On knowledge-constitutive ideals -- 1.4 Plan of the book -- 2 Information meeting about a new organization -- 2.1 From structure and actor to situation and communication -- 2.2 The advantages...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Human Resource Management as a Strategie Factor -- 2. National Human Resource Management Concepts -- 3. No Universal Model of HRM -- 4. Some Remarks on Methodological Problems of Comparative Management Research -- Human Resource Management and Corporate...

Intro -- Preface To The Third Edition -- I The Japanese Industrial System -- Chapter 1. Japan And The New Global Economy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Japan As Industrial Superpower -- 1.3 Paradoxes Of Asian Growth -- 1.4 Japan As Learner And Teacher -- 1.5 From Follower To Leader -- 1.6 Strategies...

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Business Groups and Economic Development -- Part One. Chinese Business Networks: A Comparative View -- Introduction -- A. General Perspectives -- Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Trust -- Types of Trust -- System Trust -- Personal Trust --...

Intro -- Part I: Introduction -- Introduction: In Search of Useful Theories for Cooperation and Process Redesign -- 1. Cooperation and Strategic Alliances: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Explanations -- 1.1 Basic Notions and Definitions for Cooperative Projects -- 1.2 Empirical Evidence for...

Intro -- Introduction: State, Market and Organizational Form -- Economistic Interpretations of Global Change -- Beyond Homo Oeconomicus -- Embeddedness of Economic and Organizational Activity: Towards a Dynamic Conceptualization -- Part One. Political Processes, Economic Interests and...

Intro -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Theoretical Objectives -- 1.2 Theoretical Frames of Reference -- 1.3 Knowledge-intensive Companies -- 1.4 Constraints -- 1.5 The Structure of the Book -- 2 Description of Enator AB -- 2.1 Enator's History: 1977-87 -- 2.2 Enator at the Time of the Case...