This collection brings together papers from an international research symposium. With chapters from Australia, Canada and Europe, it is consciously international in perspective and aims to compare developments in the public sector with those in the US.
Features contributions that represent the best research on various topics in public utility regulation, including topics in antitrust law, the environmental impact of public utility regulation, incentive regulation, price-cap regulation, and contractual relationships. This book is distilled from articles presented at two seminars held at Rutgers.
Contains papers from the International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Organization Studies (Wassenaar, Netherlands, May 1990). This work covers topics such as advances in population ecology, transaction cost economics, control theory, leadership studies and decision-making, among others.
This volume turns the spotlight on the neglected role of employees, analyzing the many ways - formal and informal - that employees are actually involved in the governance of corporation in America, Germany and Japan.
Covers such topics as psychological ownership in organizations, employee perceptions of fairness when human resource systems change, a culture-based perspective of organization development implementation, and mapping the progress of change through organizational levels.
Part of a series presenting scholarly thinking about research and concepts related to the transformation of organizations. The papers presented in Volume 14 address practical, conceptual and methodological issues in the field of organizational change.
Covers such topics as locating meaning making in organizational learning, internalization and the firm's growth, the psychology of organizational transactions, and organizational design and organizational development solutions to the problem of R&D-marketing integration.
Providing comprehensive coverage, this book spans the range of individual, group and organizational factors, as well as examines changing complex and global environments.
Offers a grounding in the concepts and practical issues of Organizational Behaviour for students with no previous experience of business or management. This book adopts a micro-macro approach to OB, starting with the individual through to groups and teams and finishing with the organization.
Focusing on organizational politics, this title is part of a series that considers the theoretical, methodological and research issues relevant to organizational sociology. It emphasizes micro and macro sociological approaches.
Argues that to succeed in a market where consumers demand customized goods and services, you cannot rely on any one formula. Providing examples from companies such as Taco Bell, Dell Computer, Xerox, and Merrill Lynch, this book reveals how managers can determine the best path of change for their company by assessing its existing knowledge base.