Comparative management: Organizational and cultural perspectives

Business & Money

Davis, Stanley M.

Management & Leadership

PRENTICE/HALL

Matrix management and organization are spreading in the United States and to a lesser extent in other countries. The list of well-known firms that are involved is becoming long and impressive. Davis and Lawrence provide a concise and definitive analysis of the particularly elusive organization design - the matrix organization - and elucidate clearly its forms, functions, and modes of operation. Includes case studies.

Matrix

Addison-Wesley

Hailed as the "Book of the Decade" by bestselling author Tom Peters, Future Perfect explores the innovative business and organizational possibilities existing within the New Economy. Offering concrete models and bold examples, Davis shows how an organization can learn to manage in the future tense as a way to ensure success in the coming decades. "Packed with powerful ideas. I enjoyed it immensely."--John Sculley, Apple Computer.

Future Perfect

Basic Books

Fascinating, accessible introduction to enormously important intellectual system with numerous applications to social, economic, political problems. Newly revised edition offers overview of game theory, then lucid coverage of the two-person zero-sum game with equilibrium points; the general, two-person zero-sum game; utility theory; other topics. Problems at start of each chapter. Foreword to First Edition by Oskar Morgenstern. Bibliography.

Game Theory

Describes the basic principles of game theory in which behavior and interactions in the real world are analyzed and predicted in terms of mathematical or theoretical models and matrices

Game Theory Rev

Science & Math

Mathematics

A guide for educators and executives explains how the new megaindustry that dominates education is transforming our economy and lifestyle; changing companies, consumers, and employees; and redefining learning in both the public and private sectors. 25,000 first printing.

The Monster Under the Bed: How Business Is Mastering the Opportunity of Knowledge for Profit

Botkin, James W.

Simon&Schuster

Examines the importance of the shared beliefs and values that guide a corporation and discusses the relationship between corporate culture and business strategy

Managing corporate culture

Ballinger Pub. Co.

You'll enjoy this book. It reads well and is intellectually stimulating. The ideas it proposes are important that in their context as management tools and in their aim at generating understanding by managers of what reality is like within their own organizations. It is a guide. Advice for which is sometimes paid passingly well and it can be applied almost immediately by the thoughtful manager.

Managing Corporate Culture

HarperCollins, Publishers

Managing Corporate Culture (Business Strategist Series)

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