In this exploration of the meaning of the Internet, journalist and legal scholar Andrew Shapiro weaves a narrative through events that are occurring all around us. Dissidents use the Net to evade censorship to get their messages out. Musicians bypass record companies and put the…
Study on sociological aspects of workers participation, with particular reference to France - examines the collective functioning of large and small scale industryal enterprises, handicrafts-based enterprises, production cooperatives and voluntary organizations; considers the im…
Monograph on comparison of workers participation, workers self management and workers stock ownership experiments in enterprises in the USA, UK, Spain and Yugoslavia - covers team work, semiautonomous work groups, shopfloor participation, production cooperatives, works councils,…
Monograph on management of technological change and Innovation and research and development in enterprises in the UK - covers corporate planning strategies, technological forecasting, creative thinking, project selection, cost analysis and project evaluation, the organization of…
This book presents a comprehensive view of the economic approach to the analysis of technical change.
Examines determinants of production networks in East Asia at industry and firm-levels. Covers gross trade in parts and components and gravity models, trade in value added, industry case studies, and micro data econometric studies of firm heterogeneity in production networks. Als…
A framework for organizational learning; Limited learning systems; Organizational learning; Partial models of intervention; Comprehensive intervention.
"The chief aim of Jobs and Fairness is to bring together evidence about the validity of the first hypothesis: about the material benefits which employee ownership may be expected to bring. Accordingly, after an extended discussion of theoretical and background questions, it cons…
Monograph on the management techniques of organizational development and network analysis in designing complex business organizations - presents an organizational design framework and model using matrix designs, and includes case studies of enterprises, etc. Diagrams and referen…
Textbook on methodology for the systems design of management information systems and information systems - stresses the need for top management involvement in decision making relating to the computerization of business enterprises, and includes a glossary of terms. Bibliography …
In the aftermath of a financial crisis marked by bank-friendly bailouts and loosening campaign finance restrictions, a chorus of critics warns that business leaders have too much influence over American politics. Mark Mizruchi worries about the ways they exert too little. The Fr…
The Economic Theory of Socialism and the Labour-managed Firm focuses on market socialism and the relevant debate among economic theorists. It argues that market socialism is the only rational form of socialism and that market socialism with labour-managed firms is by far the bes…
Report on a research project aimed at the development and experimentaltesting of organizational innovations and their impacts on workers participation in four enterprises in Sweden - covers job enrichment and the formation of semi-autonomous group work units, etc. Diagrams, refe…
The corporation is one of the most important and remarkable institutions in the world. It affects all our lives continuously. It feeds, entertains, houses and, employs us. It generates vast amounts of revenue for those who own it and it invests a substantial proportion of the we…