Advanced capitalism
Asset
Barriers to entry
Business ethics
Business manager
Business process reengineering
Capital Allocation
Capital asset
Capitalism
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Competitive Pricing
Complex interdependence
Contingent workforce
Core business
Corporate group
Corporation
Customer
Economic forces
Economic history of Japan
Economic interdependence
Economic interventionism
Economic liberalization
Economic planning
Economic restructuring
Economics
Economy
Employment
Entrepreneurship
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Exploitation of natural resources
Family resemblance
Globalization
Governance
Heterarchy
Hold-up problem
Industrial engineering
Industrialisation
Industry
Information asymmetry
Institutional investor
Investment fund
Job security
Keiretsu
Limited liability
Management buy-in
Market power
Neoliberalism
Nexus of contracts
Organization
Organizational analysis
Outsourcing
Ownership
Parent company
Post-industrial society
Relational contract
Relationship marketing
Research and development
Restructuring
Ronald Coase
Shareholder
State socialism
Strategic business unit
Superiority (short story)
Supply (economics)
Tax
Technology
The Nature of the Firm
Unemployment
United States antitrust law
Venture capital
Vertical integration
Zaibatsu
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- ISBN 9780691116310
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Students of management are nearly unanimous (as are managers themselves) in believing that the contemporary business corporation is in a period of dizzying change. This book represents the first time that leading experts in sociology, law, economics, and management studies have been assembled in one volume to explain the varying ways in which contemporary businesses are transforming themselves to respond to globalization, new technologies, workforce transformation, and legal change. Together their essays, whose focal point is an emerging network form of organization, bring order to the chaotic tumble of diagnoses, labels, and descriptions used to make sense of this changing world. Following an introduction by the editor, the first three chapters--by Walter Powell, David Stark, and Eleanor Westney--report systematically on change in corporate structure, strategy, and governance in the United States and Western Europe, East Asia, and the former socialist world. They separate fact from fiction and established trend from extravagant extrapolation.
This is followed by commentary on them: Reinier Kraakman affirms the durability of the corporate form; David Bryce and Jitendra Singh assess organizational change from an evolutionary perspective; Robert Gibbons considers the logic of relational contracting in firms; and Charles Tilly probes the deeper historical context in which firms operate. The result is a revealing portrait of the challenges that managers face at the dawn of the twenty-first century and of how the diverse responses to those challenges are changing the nature of business enterprise throughout the world.
Paul DiMaggio is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He has written widely in the fields of organization theory, economic sociology, and sociology of culture, and is coeditor, with Walter Powell, of "The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis".
