Ebook: The twenty-first-century firm : changing economic organization in international perspective

Students of management are nearly unanimous (as are managers themselves) in believing that the contemporary business corporation is in a period of dizzying change. This book represents the first time that leading experts in sociology, law, economics, and management studies have been assembled in one volume to explain the varying ways in which contemporary businesses are transforming themselves to respond to globalization, new technologies, workforce transformation, and legal change. Together their essays, whose focal point is an emerging network form of organization, bring order to the chaotic. Read more... Introduction: Making sense of the contemporary firm and prefiguring its future / Paul DiMaggio -- The capitalist firm in the twenty-first century : emerging patterns in western enterprise / Walter W. Powell -- Ambiguous assets for uncertain environments : heterarchy in postsocialist firms / David Stark -- Japanese enterprise faces the twenty-first century / D. Eleanor Westney -- The durability of the corporate form / Reinier Kraakman -- The future of the firm from an evolutionary perspective / David J. Bryce, Jitendra V. Singh -- Firms (and other relationships) / Robert Gibbons -- Welcome to the seventeenth century / Charles Tilly -- Conclusion: The futures of business organization and paradoxes of change / Paul DiMaggio