Organizing Industrial Development

✍ Scribed by Rolf H. Wolff (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization; 7
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Organization Theory – A Contribution to Our Understanding of the Visible Hand
Part I. Industrial Dynamics – Some General Problems
1. The World Productivity Growth Slump
Some Explanations
R&D, Technological Change, and Productivity
What Went Wrong With R&D?
Conclusion
2. Organizational Economy – The Politics of Unanimity and Suppressed Competition
The Organizational Economy
Some Systemic Phenomena
Character Roles in the Organizational Economy
The Politics of Unanimity and Suppressed Competition
3. Economic Growth and Decision-Making in Japan: The Duality of Visible and Invisible Guiding Hands
Introduction
Coping With Uncertainty: Behavior of Some Successful Populations in Highly Variable Environments
Decision Processes in the Economic Domain in Japan: In Search of Basic Attributes
Conclusion and Prognosis
4. Industry, Government and the Public – The Public Role of Big Corporations
The Issue
The Genesis of the Industrial Society
The Response to Worker Unrest
The Swedish Model
Cracks in the Swedish Model
The Collapse of the Swedish Model
Structural Contradictions
Government Industrial Policy
Attempts to Salvage the Swedish Model
Towards a New Swedish Model?
5. Mental Standardization and Industrial Development
Introduction
Theoretical Perspectives
International Influences
The Swedish National Level
The Company Level
Comment
Part II. Industrial Development – Interrelations Between the Private and the Public Sector
6. Governmental Influence Upon Decision Making in Organizations in the Private and Public Sectors in Britain
Introduction
Sample and Data Collection
Governmental Influence
7. Industrial Policy – Control and Dependence in a Systems Perspective
Politics and Economics – Power and Efficiency
Industrial Policy and Institutional Economics
Society – A System Without a Power Center
Industrial Policy – A Political Instrument of Control?
Industrial Policy – Dependence and Control of Resources
The Whole – Responsibility and Meaning
8. Industrial Policy as Implementation or Legitimation
Society as Hierarchy
Can the State Control Industry?
The Will to Control – Implementation or Legitimation
A Summary
9. Innovation in Industrial Policy Sectors – The Cases of Remote Sensing and Bioenergy
Background
An Interorganizational Approach to the Promotion of Industrial Development
Data
Remote Sensing
Bioenergy
A Comparative Analysis of the two Policy Sectors
Conclusions
10. Politics in Business – The Interaction Between Environment and Strategy Formulation
Background and Approach to Politics in Strategic Action
Politics in Strategy – Approaches and Theories
Empirical Background to the Analyses
Summary and Conclusions
Part III. Strategies for Industrial Development
11. Leadership for New Business Conditions
New Business Conditions
Implications for Business and Management
The Role of Leadership
Leaders
The Dynamics of Business Development
The Dynamics of Management Development
12. Innovation Management in Diversified Corporations: Problems of Organization
Introduction
Positioning the Firm
Determining the Position of the Firm
Conclusions
13. Strategic Product Exit – The Organizing of Product Disinvestment
Desinvestment in the Schumpeterian World
The Andersson Corporation
Strategic Problems and Decision-Making
The Phases of Corporate Development
Stopping in Time – An Entrepreneurial Skill
Empirical Data
Prescriptions for Systematic Product Withdrawals
14. The Impact of Electronic Communications on Organizations
Introduction
The Design of Communications
Communications and Human Interaction
Electronic Communications and Power
Conclusion
15. Third World, Third Wave? On the Information Society as a Model for Developing Countries
Background
Underdeveloped, Developing, and Industrialized Nations
The Real Price of Oil
Hardware, Software, Know-Ware
Must There be a Second Wave?
C & C and 3 W
Brave New Third World
Part IV. Research and Change
16. How We Decide and How We Act – On the Assumptions of Viking Organization Theory
Introduction
Managerial Practice
Decision
Action
Talk
Talk, Decision and Action
Legitimacy, Rationality and Responsibility
Making Sense of Viking Life
17. Theories of Making Choice and Making Decisions
Rational Choice
Uncertainty and Ambiguity
Conflict
Rules
Disorder
Symbols
Information and Implications
18. A Philosophy of Rationalization – The Polish Praxiology of T. Kotarbinsky
Introduction
Economy Versus Production
Elements of Efficient Action
Values of Efficient Action
Economization of Action
Instruments of Action
Organization of Action
Meta-Values of Efficient Action
19. Towards a Control Theory of the Firm
Introduction
The Firm
Developing the Plan
Establishing Targets
Comparision of Actual and Targets
Control Actions
Methodological Implications
Implications of the Control Approach
Summary
20. Why the World Needs Organizational Design
Do Organizations Need to be Designed?
Would Design Benefit Science?
Is Design Practical Today?
Walter Goldberg’s Biography
The Authors