Organization of Innovation: East-West Perspectives

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Capitalist-Socialist Dialogue on Organizational Behaviour -- Part I. Perspectives -- 1. Paradigms and Understandings in Comparative Organizational Research -- 2. Towards Socialist-Capitalist Comparisons of the Organizational Problem -- 3. Four Structural Problems of the Modern Enterprise: Similarities and Differences in Capitalist and Socialist Countries -- 4. Information Technology and Organizational Choice -- Part II. Innovation and the Organization -- 5. Strategic Management of Innovation in Large Czechoslovak Firms -- 6. Attitudes and Motivation of Production Managers in the Management of Technological Innovation -- 7. New Technology and New Supervisory Roles in U.K. Manufacturing Industry -- 8. Organizations and the Computer Culture: The Mismanagement of Meaning? -- Part III. Innovation and the Social Environment -- 9. Variants of the Socialist Economic Management System in Eastern Europe -- 10. The Social Frame of Innovation: The Example of Yugoslavia -- 11. Industrial Relations and High Technology: The Transformation of Telecommunications Through Deregulation -- 12. Technical Innovation and Economic Reform in Socialist Economies with Special Reference to China -- 13. Managerial Practices and Patterns of Employee Behaviour in the Soviet Enterprise -- 14. "Democracy" in Worker-Owned Enterprises: The U. S. Experience -- The Authors