The Enterprise in Transition: An analysis of European and American practice

by H. van der Haas (Editor)

Overview

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1967 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138863781
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/2014
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

H. van der Haas

Table of Contents

1: Introduction; 1: Historical synopsis; 2: Historical development of business in Europe; 3: Historical development of business in the United States; 4: Outlines of business theory; 2: European business in transition; 5: Backgrounds; 6: Problems of orientation; 7: The American impact; 8: The industry sample; 3: The main areas of transition; 9: Survey of transitions; 10: Transition from orientation on the past to orientation on the future; 11: Transition from production-centred business to product (market)-centred business; 12: Transition from business in a negotiated environment to business in a competitive environment; 13: Transition from capital-labour polarization to capital-labour osmosis; 14: Transition from owner-control to professional management; 15: Transition from accumulation of resources to rational growth; 16: Transition from chance innovation to scientific management of innovation; 17: Transition from the concept of economic man to the concept of pluralistic motivation; 18: Transition from isolation of business to business in a pluralistic society; 19: Transition from classical organization theory to a pluralistic theory; 4: Case studies; 20: Steel; 21: Shipbuilding; 22: Transportation equipment; 23: Machinery and construction; 24: Electrical and electronic equipment; 25: Chemical industry 98; 26: Foodstuffs and detergents; 27: Miscellaneous