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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
chapter 7|16 pages
Progressive and degenerative problemshifts of organizations
Organizational evolutionism based on critical rationalism
part III|53 pages
Symbiotic interaction with the environment
chapter 11|11 pages
Communicating through on-line database systems
A strategy for monitoring corporate environments