ABSTRACT

This book assessess the organizational flexibility and pragmatism of Japanese management styles and contrasts this with Western management approaches which focus more closely on patterns of stability. Issues in change and organizational renewal are covered by analysing the dynamic processes by which a Japanese company organizes itself, exploring such areas as networks, informatics, quality control circles and human systems management.

part I|85 pages

Philosophy of organizational dynamism

chapter 1|23 pages

Self-renewal of corporate organizations

Equilibrium, self-sustaining, and self-renewing models

part II|55 pages

Organizational behaviour and the management of the firm

part III|53 pages

Symbiotic interaction with the environment

chapter 9|16 pages

Population ecology versus network dynamics

From evolution to co-evolution

chapter 10|11 pages

Comparative management systems

Trade-offs-free concept

chapter 11|11 pages

Communicating through on-line database systems

A strategy for monitoring corporate environments