The goal of this work was to use these cross-national comparisons to betterunderstand how human resource policies operate to affect firm performance,not as individual practices, but as bundles of interacting practices thathave positive effects on both productivity and the quality of life of workers

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 -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Part One. Relating Societal Culture and Management -- A. Introduction -- Β. Some General Issues -- 1. Do Cultures Vary? -- 2. Time is the Essence -- 3. Cross-national Organizational Research: The Grasp of the Blind Men -- 4. The Onslaught on Social,...