Organizing Industrial Development

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Organization Theory- A Contribution to our Understanding of the Visible Hand / Wolff, Rolf -- Part I. Industrial Dynamics – Some General Problems -- The World Productivity Growth Slump / Scherer, Frederic M. -- Organizational Economy - The Politics of Unanimity and Suppressed Competition / Lundin, Rolf A. -- Economic Growth and Decision-Making in Japan: The Duality of Visible and Invisible Guiding Hands / Vertinsky, Ilan -- Industry, Government and the Public – The Public Role of Big Corporations / Sandkull, Bengt -- Mental Standardization and Industrial Development / Jönsson, Sten -- Part II. Industrial Development – Interrelations Between the Private and the Public Sector -- Governmental Influence Upon Decision Making in Organizations in the Private and Public Sectors in Britain / Hickson, David J. / Butler, Richard J. / Cray, David / Mallory, Geoffrey R. / Wilson, David C. -- Industrial Policy – Control and Dependence in a Systems Perspective / Wolff, Rolf -- Industrial Policy as Implementation or Legitimation / Brunsson, Nils -- Innovation in Industrial Policy Sectors – The Cases of Remote Sensing and Bioenergy / Högberg, Βengt / Norbäck, Lars Erik / Stenberg, Thomas -- Politics in Business – The Interaction Between Environment and Strategy Formulation / Larsson, Stig -- Part III. Strategies for Industrial Development -- Leadership for new Business Conditions / Edström, Anders -- Innovation Management in Diversified Corporations: Problems of Organization / Mensch, Gerhard O. -- Strategie Product Exit – The Organizing of Product Disinvestment / Sternhufvud, Ulf / Wolff, Rolf -- The Impact of Electronic Communications on Organizations / Simon, Herbert A. -- Third World, Third Wave? On the Information Society as a Model for Developing Countries / Hedberg, Bo -- Part IV. Research and Change -- How We Decide and How We Act – On the Assumptions of Viking Organization Theory / Czarniawska, Barbara / Wolff, Rolf -- Theories of Choice and Making Decisions? / March, James G. -- A Philosophy of Rationalization – The Polish Praxiology of T. Kotarbinski / Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre -- Towards a Control Theory of the Firm / Cyert, Richard M. / DeGroot, Morris -- Why the World Needs Organizational Design / Starbuck, William H. / Nystrom, Paul C. -- Walter Goldberg’s Biography -- The Authors -- Backmatter