Organisations in action : competition between contexts
There is a huge market for organisational behaviour books which explain the complex dynamics & workings of organisations. Every business undergraduate will study the subject as a core course & every reflective manager will need to understand the topic
x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415182300, 9780415182317, 0415182301, 041518231X
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Part 1 New political economy; Chapter 1 Two themes, three disciplines and five perspectives; Chapter 2 From modernism to neo-modern political economy; Chapter 3 Organisation theory; Chapter 4 Structuration, domain theory and the realist turn; Chapter 5 Organisation economics and economic sociology; Part 2 Competition between contexts; Chapter 6 Long-term political economy; Chapter 7 National innovation-design systems; Chapter 8 Nations; Chapter 9 American exceptionalism; Chapter 10 Sectoral clusters and competition between contexts; Part 3 Firms; Chapter 11 Resource-based strategic analysis; Chapter 12 Contingent recurrent action patterns and repertoires; Chapter 13 Knowledges; Chapter 14 Morphogenesis/stasis; Part 4 Zones of manoeuvre; Chapter 15 Organisational management and zones of manoeuvre;