The Twenty-First-Century Firm : : Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective / / ed. by Paul DiMaggio.

Students of management are nearly unanimous (as are managers themselves) in believing that the contemporary business corporation is in a period of dizzying change. This book represents the first time that leading experts in sociology, law, economics, and management studies have been assembled in one...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Making Sense of the Contemporary Firm and Prefiguring Its Future
  • PART ONE. Portraits from Three Regions
  • CHAPTER 2. The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise
  • CHAPTER 3. Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments: Heterarchy in Postsocialist Firms
  • CHAPTER 4 Japanese Enterprise Faces the Twenty-First Century
  • PART TWO. Commentaries
  • CHAPTER 5. The Durability of the Corporate Form
  • CHAPTER 6. The Future of the Firm from an Evolutionary Perspective
  • CHAPTER 7. Firms (and Other Relationships)
  • CHAPTER 8. Welcome to the Seventeenth Century
  • CHAPTER 9. Conclusion: The Futures of Business Organization and Paradoxes of Change
  • References
  • Index