The new wave of organizational innovations involves new types of arrangements between individuals and corporations. It is likely to continue to produce new organizational forms, spanning the entire range of combinations of markets and hierarchies and involving complex, sometimes protracted negotiation processes between individuals and corporate entities. Such negotiation processes, we believe, will be an increasingly pervasive aspect of corporate life and an important mechanism for facilitating the new integration of individualism and big business through corporate entrepreneurship.

Inside Corporate Innovation: Strategy, Structure and Managerial Skills

Business & Money

Burgelman, Robert A.

Sayles, Leonard R.

Management & Leadership

Free Pr

Argues that corporate success now depends more on implementation and execution than on strategic planning, and looks at actual cases of managers making systems adjust to changing situations

The Working Leader: The Triumph of High Performance over Conventional Management Principles

Free Press

Managing Large Systems examines a range of human, organizational, and managerial challenges associated with large systems. Special attention is given to the behavioral relationships among scientists and engineers, business and technical managers, sponsor organizations and their contractors, business and government officials, and line and functional managers.The descriptions of problems of technical organization and performance motivation are based primarily on an extended field study of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Managing Large Systems includes a description of the unique management system developed by NASA under the leadership of James Webb that many believe was responsible for their extraordinary technological achievements that culminated in the first moon landing. Parallels are drawn to other large-scale technology programs in aerospace and atomic energy.The authors find traditional managerial principles regarding controls, incentive systems, and planning to be inadequate in the context of large systems. They look to organizational clusters to manage future projects in advanced technological areas and in public sectors such as urban development, massive medical programs, and ecological improvements.

Managing large systems: organizations for the future

Harper&Row

How Managers Motivate [Jul 01, 1971] Dowling, W.F. and Sayles, Leonard R. ...

How managers motivate: the imperatives of supervision

Dowling, William F.

McGraw=Hill

Leadership: What effective managers really do ... and how they do it (McGraw-Hill series in management)

McGraw-Hill Inc.,US

Leadership: Managing in Real Organizations [Feb 01, 1989] Sayles, Leonard R. ...

Leadership: Managing in Real Organizations

Mcgraw-Hill College

Series: McGraw-Hill series in management Hardcover: 327 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US; 2nd edition (March 1, 1989) Language: English ISBN-10: 0070550182 ISBN-13: 978-0070550186

Leadership: Managing in Real Organizations (McGraw-Hill Series in Management)

McGraw-Hill Companies

Billions of dollars continue to be lost by companies and investors due to the pervasive impact of manipulative, self-serving executives. Financial scandals aren't unknown in U.S. business history, but today's growing problem of executive excesses and self-serving behavior is unprecedented in both its persistence and pervasiveness. Executives continue to plunder their companies and rip off their stockholders. This book reveals the true breadth and depth of corporate corruption—including flagrant new cases that haven't received the publicity they deserve. More important, it answers the questions that matter most: Why now? And how can we stop it? The authors identify powerful forces that cut across management, finance, the economy, politics, and even psychology. They identify rarely discussed contributing factors, such as the consulting boom, new technologies used by accounting and auditing professionals, the transformation of business schools, journalism, and the media in general. This book addresses both criminal activity and the not-quite-illegal abuses that are now endemic in the executive suite—abuses that challenge the underpinnings of capitalism. Its deep insights will help both leaders and citizens understand exactly what's happened and what is needed to stem the tide of destructive behavior.

The Rise of the Rogue Executive: How Good Companies Go Bad And How to Stop the Destruction

Smith, Cynthia J.

Economics

Ft Pr

Financial scandals aren't unknown in US business history, but today's growing problem of executive excesses and self serving behavior is unprecedented in both its persistence and pervasiveness. Executives continue to plunder their companies and rip off their stockholders. This book reveals the true breadth and depth of corporate corruption -- including flagrant new cases that haven't received the publicity they deserve. More important, it answers the questions that matter most: Why now? And how can we stop it? Sayles is one the world's most honored management experts. As in-house corporate anthropologist at Arthur Andersen, Smith had a unique vantage point on the cultural changes that led to Andersen's collapse. Together, they identify powerful forces that cut across management, finance, the economy, politics, even psychology. Along the way, they identify rarely-discussed contributing factors such as the consulting boom, new technologies used by accounting and auditing professionals, the transformation of b-schools, journalism, and the media in general.This book addresses both criminal activity and the not-quite-illegal abuses that are now endemic in the executive suite -- abuses that challenge the underpinnings of capitalism. Its deep insights will help both leaders and citizens understand exactly what's happened and what is needed to stem the tide of destructive behavior.

The Rise of the Rogue Executive: How Good Companies Go Bad and How to Stop the Destruction

Biography & History

Human Behavior in Organizations

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