John Child & Paul Bate 
Organization of Innovation [PDF ebook] 
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