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UNINA9910807070103321 |
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Titolo |
When things go wrong : organizational failures and breakdowns / / Helmut K. Anheier, editor |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c1999 |
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ISBN |
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0-7619-1047-6 |
1-322-41658-3 |
1-4522-6465-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 318 p.) : ill |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Business failures |
Bankruptcy |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Introduction; Chapter 1 - Organizational Failures,Breakdowns,and Bankrup An Introduction; Part II - Organizations and Failure; Chapter 2 - Costly Information:Firm Transformation,Exit, or Persistent Failure; Chapter 3 - Decision Overreach as a Reason for Failure: How Organizations Can Overbalance; Chapter 4 - ""Tales From the Grave'': Organizations' 3 Accounts of Their Own Demise; Chapter 5 - Organizational Coping,Failure,and Success: Academies of Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe |
Part III - The Political Economy of Failure and BankruptcyChapter 6 - Successful Failure:An Alternative View of Organizational Coping; Chapter 7 - Veiled Politics:Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field; Chapter 8 - The Politics of Blame Avoidance: Defensive Tactics in a Dutch Crime -Fighting Fiasco; Chapter 9 - Creating the Agents of Corporate Rescue: Professionalization of Insolvency; Part VI - The Cognitive Construction of Failure; Chapter 10 - Prosaic Organizational Failure; Chapter 11 - Permanent Failure and the Failure of Organizational Performance; Part V - Structural Failures |
Chapter 12 - Success and Failure in Institutional Development: A Network ApproachChapter 13 - Stalemate:A Structural Analysis of Organizational Failure; Chapter 14 - Studying Organizational Failures; |
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References; Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines four aspects of organisational failure - organisational, political, cognitive and structural. Using real-life examples, the contributors look at various issues to differentiate between failure as a process and as an outcome. |
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