"Understanding Organizations: Theories and Images" offers students practical insights into managing organizations. It includes essential models and theories, insightful anecdotes on societal roles of organizations, and a multi-perspective approach focusing on economics and evolution theory. Ideal for management and organizational studies at all levels.
A Novella
While Bernd is traveling with his wife through the Black Forest in Germany, he comes to realize that there are things hidden behind Ellen’s mask that he should have dealt with much sooner. He had not torn the mask off her face for fear of embarrassing her in public and harming their children psychologically. He was a fool not to have unmasked her, he now says, sitting in the office of her psychiatrist and screaming his way out of his poisoned union with her.
InhaltsverzeichnisFrontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1. Networks and Regional Development: Perspectives and Unresolved Issues -- 2. Flexible Specialization in Regional Networks -- 3. Regional-Industrial Networks and the Role of Labour -- 4. Rationalizing State Economic Development -- 5. Quebec's Strategy to Foster Value-Adding Interfirm Cooperation -- 6. The Industrial Resurgence of Southern California? -- 7. Strategic Economic Cooperation and Employment Relations Issues -- 8. The Social Embeddedness of Industrial District Networks -- 9. Why Do Industries Cluster? -- 10. Regional Clusters and Economic Development: A Research Agenda -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter