Comparative Management - Critical Perspectives on Business and Management (Hardcover)

Contents:
Volume I: North American Management Preface Introduction: Comparative Management Revisited Part I, Comparative Management Models: 1. K. Roberts, On looking at an elephant: an evolution of cross-cultural research related to organizations 2. D. Hickson et al, Grounds for comparative organization theory: quicksands or hard-core? 3. G. Hofstede ,Motivation, leadership and organization: do American theories apply abroad? 4. C.R. Littler, A comparative analysis of managerial structures and strategies (Britain, Japan, US and Germany) 5. M. Warner, Industrialization, management education and training systems 6. M. Chen, Major comparative management models Part II, US Management (with comparisons elsewhere): 7. A.D. Chandler Jr., Management decentralization: an historical analysis 8. Patterns in the role of the manager 9. F.A. Heller and L.W. Porter, Perceptions of managerial needs and skills in two national samples (in UK and USA) 10. J.H.K. Inkson et al, A comparison of organization structure and managerial roles in Ohio, USA, and the Midlands, England 11. W. Lazonick, Strategy and structure and management development in the United States and Britain 12. B.W. Carroll, Systemic conservatism in North American organizations 13. P.B. Doeringer et al, Restructuring managerial and professional work in large (US) corporations 14. B. Kogut, National organizing principles of work and the erstwhile dominance of the American multinational corporation 15. F. Heller , A multinational study of decision-making: the relationship between competence and participation 16. S. Beechler and A. Bird, The best of both worlds? Human resource management practices in US-based Japanese affiliates 17. I. Cutcher-Gershenfled and A. Verma, Joint governance in North American work places: a glimpse of the future or the end of an era? 18. T. Kochan and L. Dyer, HRM: an American view Volume II: European Management Part I, Western Europe: 1. F.A. Heller and B. Wilpert, Limits to participative leadership: task, structure and skill as contingencies - German-British comparison 2. J. Child and A. Kieser, Organization and managerial roles in British and West German companies: an examination of the culture-free thesis 3. M. Maurice, A. Sorge and M. Warner, Societal differences in organizing manufacturing units: a comparison of France, West Germany and Great Britain 4. G. Mallory et al, Implanting decisionmaking: American-owned firms in Britain 5. S. Ackroyd, G. Burrell, M. Hughes and A. Whitaker, The Japanisation of British Industry 6. C. Lane, Industrial reorganization in Europe: patterns of covergence and divergence in Germany, France and Britain 7. R. Calori, Markets and managers (in Europe) 8. J-L. Barsoux and P. Lawrence, Countries, cultures and constraints (in European business).

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Critical Perspectives on Business and Management
Release date:	February 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	Malcolm Warner
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover • Hardcover • Hardcover • Hardcover
Pages:	1528
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-13260-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General
LSN:	0-415-13260-6
Barcode:	9780415132602

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