ABSTRACT

This original and ambitious work provides a fascinating examination of organizations from both a post-modern and new organizational economics perspective. Combining strategy, international business and organisational theory, it represents a ground-breaking critique of prevailing mainstream modernist theories of organization. Distinctive features include:

* a comprehensive analysis of social and organizational theory
* discussion and exploration of knowledge capitalism
* a critique of core competencies and resource based approaches to strategy, human resource management and organizational behaviour.

In an essential area of study for every business undergraduate and reflective manager, this outstanding book pulls together material which is currently scattered and poorly synthesised, and examines high-profile real-world business examples.

part |104 pages

New political economy

chapter |29 pages

Organisation theory

Design rules

part |104 pages

Competition between contexts

chapter |24 pages

Long-term political economy

Hegemony, dependence and markets

chapter |25 pages

National innovation-design systems

chapter |22 pages

Nations

Structural and institutional variations

chapter |14 pages

American exceptionalism

part |77 pages

Firms

chapter |17 pages

Resource-based strategic analysis

chapter |18 pages

Knowledges

Contested, distributed and explacit

chapter |21 pages

Morphogenesis/stasis

part |25 pages

Zones of manoeuvre