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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Organization Theory- A Contribution to our Understanding of the Visible Hand -- Part I. Industrial Dynamics - Some General Problems -- The World Productivity Growth Slump -- Organizational Economy - The Politics of Unanimity and Suppressed Competition -- Economic Growth and Decision-Making in Japan: The Duality of Visible and Invisible Guiding Hands -- Industry, Government and the Public - The Public Role of Big Corporations -- Mental Standardization and Industrial Development -- Part II. Industrial Development - Interrelations Between the Private and the Public Sector -- Governmental Influence Upon Decision Making in Organizations in the Private and Public Sectors in Britain -- Industrial Policy - Control and Dependence in a Systems Perspective -- Industrial Policy as Implementation or Legitimation -- Innovation in Industrial Policy Sectors - The Cases of Remote Sensing and Bioenergy -- Politics in Business - The Interaction Between Environment and Strategy Formulation -- Part III. Strategies for Industrial Development -- Leadership for new Business Conditions -- Innovation Management in Diversified Corporations: Problems of Organization -- Strategie Product Exit - The Organizing of Product Disinvestment -- The Impact of Electronic Communications on Organizations -- Third World, Third Wave? On the Information Society as a Model for Developing Countries -- Part IV. Research and Change -- How We Decide and How We Act - On the Assumptions of Viking Organization Theory -- Theories of Choice and Making Decisions? -- A Philosophy of Rationalization - The Polish Praxiology of T. Kotarbinski -- Towards a Control Theory of the Firm -- Why the World Needs Organizational Design -- Walter Goldberg's Biography -- The Authors -- Backmatter
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Organization Theory- A Contribution to our Understanding of the Visible Hand -- Part I. Industrial Dynamics - Some General Problems -- The World Productivity Growth Slump -- Organizational Economy - The Politics of Unanimity and Suppressed Competition -- Economic Growth and Decision-Making in Japan: The Duality of Visible and Invisible Guiding Hands -- Industry, Government and the Public - The Public Role of Big Corporations -- Mental Standardization and Industrial Development -- Part II. Industrial Development - Interrelations Between the Private and the Public Sector -- Governmental Influence Upon Decision Making in Organizations in the Private and Public Sectors in Britain -- Industrial Policy - Control and Dependence in a Systems Perspective -- Industrial Policy as Implementation or Legitimation -- Innovation in Industrial Policy Sectors - The Cases of Remote Sensing and Bioenergy -- Politics in Business - The Interaction Between Environment and Strategy Formulation -- Part III. Strategies for Industrial Development -- Leadership for new Business Conditions -- Innovation Management in Diversified Corporations: Problems of Organization -- Strategie Product Exit - The Organizing of Product Disinvestment -- The Impact of Electronic Communications on Organizations -- Third World, Third Wave? On the Information Society as a Model for Developing Countries -- Part IV. Research and Change -- How We Decide and How We Act - On the Assumptions of Viking Organization Theory -- Theories of Choice and Making Decisions? -- A Philosophy of Rationalization - The Polish Praxiology of T. Kotarbinski -- Towards a Control Theory of the Firm -- Why the World Needs Organizational Design -- Walter Goldberg's Biography -- The Authors -- Backmatter
