Organization of Innovation

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