by Richard A. Goodman (1999)
The contributors to this book review the postindustrial subculture, emphasizing cross-disciplinary and cross-contextual inquiry, a central idiom of postindustrial organizational life. The essays consider alternative methods of understanding media that add variety to "meanings" within and without organizations. This multi-method approach to the search for meaning and the limits of words and symbols in expressing meaning generates a personally interpretive basis for science.
Randy Spitzer
"Descibes how business leaders can create a resonsibility culture by changing the social contract between management and employees, encouraging emergent leaders, and delivering customer value"--Provided by publisher.
Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala
It's still true - in America anything is possible. Now you can discover the hidden secrets of American quality. Learn what motivates Americans to act the way they do. Learn what motivates them to do the impossible. In this new and exciting book, you will learn the results of the landmark AT & T quality archetype study that changes much of the conventional wisdom about the human side of quality. Incredibly American explores the cultural roots of quality, the key to understanding fully what people do and why. The case studies and dozens of ideas for action will help you integrate this fresh approach with your current efforts in ways that stimulate and encourage all to reach for their full potential.
Tony Ellson
"This book offers an alternative to the traditional process of segmentation, targeting and positioning, highlighting some important implications for management and marketing practitioners as well as academics. Strategic positioning is the assertion of an organization's personality on decisions of how and where to compete. Operational positioning is an exercise in communication that concentrates on perception and image." "The book suggests that the principal drivers of strategic positioning play a fundamental role in the determination of strategy at all levels and play a pivotal role in differentiating competitors and generating competitive advantage. In particular, strategic positioning requires awareness and sometimes adjustment and changes in an organization's culture rather than just the cosmetic approach sometimes sought through promotion, advertising and communications plans."--Jacket.
Sumantra Ghoshal and D. Eleanor Westney
"The original edition of Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation was a seminal influence in bringing together organization theory and perspectives on the multinational corporation from international management. Leading scholars from both fields contributed to the book, and it quickly became an important resource for researchers, students, and those with a broad interest in either field. This new edition, which updates the original chapters to reflect recent work and includes, a new chapter on institutional contexts, makes this important work once again widely available."--Jacket.