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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955172803321

Autore

Ackoff Russell L (Russell Lincoln), <1919->

Titolo

The democratic corporation : a radical prescription for recreating corporate America and rediscovering success / / Russell L. Ackoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770278-3

1-280-52725-0

0-19-802480-0

1-4294-0586-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

658.4032

Soggetti

Industrial management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Background; 1. The Emerging Concept of an Enterprise; 2. The Enterprise and Its Stakeholders; II. Foreground; 3. Quality of Work Life and Its Products; 4. The Circular Organization; 5. The Organization as a Market Economy; 6. The Multidimensional Organization; Epilogue: New Business Education; Appendix: Thinking Backward; References; Suggested Readings; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This study describes the organizational and managerial ways in which firms can overtake and pass other companies. It stresses the concept of "quality of life" within an organization, and outlines three major ways that this can be achieved.