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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172237903321

Autore

Foster Joann McDonald <1941->

Titolo

The communitarian organization : preserving cultural integrity in the transnational economy / / Joann McDonald Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Garland, c1998

ISBN

1-135-57941-5

0-203-28995-1

0-203-21055-7

1-135-57940-7

1-280-03260-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Transnational business and corporate culture

Disciplina

302.3/5

302.35

Soggetti

Corporate culture

Communitarianism

Organization

International business enterprises

Economic history - 1990-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; DEMOCRATIZATION AND COMPLEX INTERDEPENDENCE; CULTURE, ECONOMICS, AND CORPORATE BEHAVIOR; THE INDIVIDUALIST MODEL: AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; THE ORGANIC MODEL: THE JAPANESE ORGANIZATIONAL PARADIGM; THE COMMUNITARIAN PARADIGM; GLOBAL CHANGE, CULTURAL CHALLENGE, AND THE COMMUNITARIAN RESPONSE; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Emerging from profound political change in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, and coupled with a proliferation of market economies and commercial interpenetrations of hitherto closed societies, the international system has become a global village, where the rules of conduct of economic enterprise entail intricacies and sensitivities heretofore largely incongruous to mainstream organization



theory.