Product Description: This new work by Neil W. Chamberlain will be of great importance to the business community -- and to all those charged with defining the role large corporations play in the affairs of society.Social Strategy and Corporate Structure is an objective, indepth examination of the organizational requirements of a social role for large-scale business...read more

Product Description: Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L...read more

Product Description: Over the past decade, the "German Model" of industrial organization has been the subject of vigorous debate among social scientists and historians, especially in comparison to the American one. Is a "Rhenish capitalism" still viable at the beginning of the 21st century and does it offer a road to the New Economy different from the one, in which the standards are set by the U...read more

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Product Description: This volume presents an authoritative database on the workings of organizations in the United States. It describes the National Organizations Study, the first national survey of organizations in the US using a statistically representative sample...read more

Explains why large businesses have had to reduce the number of management positions, suggests ways to maintain a lean organization, and shares examples of corporate reductions

Product Description: The author demonstrates that the resources (income and wealth) available to most categories of employees has declined over the past 20 years relative to the total income and wealth in our society. Arguing that the decline of the heavy industry sector of the economy has eroded the power of organized labor, which was most concentrated in precisely these industries, Tigges suggests that the declining power of the unions has resulted in a lessened ability for employees to bargain for higher wages with their employers, thereby reducing employees' relative share of the national income...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Compares failing and prospering companies, argues that changing American values are responsible for declining productivity, and proposes some long-range solutions

Edward's controversial theory about the growing number of supervisory personnel argues that the decline of the individual employer and the rise of impersonal bureaucracies forced the managers to establish more controls over employees