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Organizational Science Abroad

Constraints and Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Chimezie A. B. Osigweh

    1. Department of Management, School of Business, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Myth of Universality in Transnational Organizational Science

      • Chimezie A. B. Osigweh
      Pages 3-26

    3. From the Atlantic to the Pacific Century

      • Nancy J. Adler, Robert Doktor
      Pages 27-54

  3. Insights and Perspectives from Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Applying American Organizational Sciences in Europe and the United Kingdom

      • Cary L. Cooper, Charles J. Cox
      Pages 57-65

    3. The Failure of Management Techniques in Central Planning Economies

      • Wiktor Askanas
      Pages 67-80

    4. Union—Management Participation in Corporate Decision-Making

      • Rolf E. Rogers, William Aussieker
      Pages 81-95

    5. Convergence or Divergence of Strategic Decision Processes among 10 Nations

      • Richard C. Hoffman, W. Harvey Hegarty
      Pages 97-115

  4. Insights and Perspectives from Asia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. The Diffusion of American Organizational Theory in Postwar Japan

      • Schon L. Beechler, Vladimir Pucik
      Pages 119-134

    3. Rational Man Theory in American and Japanese Performance Control

      • Jeremiah J. Sullivan, Teruhiko Suzuki, Yasumasa Kondo
      Pages 135-160

    4. Chinese Enterprise Management

      • Rosalie L. Tung
      Pages 161-178

    5. A Comparison of Enterprise Management in Japan and the People’s Republic of China

      • Dexter Dunphy, Jeannette Shi
      Pages 179-200

  5. Other Specific Insights and Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Contradictions between Brazilian and U.S. Organizations

      • Kim S. Cameron, Myung Un Kim, Sarah J. Freeman
      Pages 203-228

    3. The Influence of Societal Culture on Corporate Culture, Business Strategy, and Performance in the International Airline Industry

      • Durhane Wong-Rieger, Fritz Rieger
      Pages 229-265

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
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    2. Organizational Effectiveness and Its Attainment

      • Uma Sekaran, Coral R. Snodgrass
      Pages 269-292

    3. Organizational Science in a Global Environment

      • Richard M. Steers
      Pages 293-304
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About this book

Organizing consists of making other people work. We do this by manip­ ulating symbols: words, exhortations, memos, charts, signs of status. We expect these symbols to have the desired effects on the people con­ cerned. The success of our organizing activities depends on whether the others do attach to our symbols the meanings we expect them to. Whether or not they do so is a function of what I have sometimes called "the programs in their minds" -their learned ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting-in short, a function of their culture. The assumption that organizations could be culture-free is naive and myopic; it is based on a misunderstanding of the very act of organizing. Certainly, few people who have ever worked abroad will make this assumption. The dependence of organizations on their people's mental pro­ grams does not mean, of course, that we do not find many similarities across organizations. Some characteristics of human mental program­ ming are universal; others are shared by most people in a continent, a country, a region, an industry, a scientific discipline, or even a gender.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management, School of Business, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, USA

    Chimezie A. B. Osigweh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Organizational Science Abroad

  • Book Subtitle: Constraints and Perspectives

  • Editors: Chimezie A. B. Osigweh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0912-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42969-9Published: 31 January 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0914-5Published: 22 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0912-1Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 340

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Political Science, Sociology, general

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