{"product_id":"the-twentyfirstcentury-firm-changing-economic-organization-in-international-perspective-9780691116310","title":"The TwentyFirstCentury Firm  Changing Economic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplains the varying ways in which contemporary businesses are transforming themselves to respond to globalization, new technologies, workforce transformation, and legal change. This book offers a portrait of the challenges that managers face at the dawn of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important addition to the literature on organizations and economic sociology. Major scholars in sociology and other areas contributed to this collection of original essays, which is blessed by coherent introductory and concluding essays by the editor.\"--Richard H. Hall, Contemporary Sociology \"The Twenty-First Century Firm is highly successful in unpacking the concept of network forms of organization.\"--Martin Ruef, Administrative Science Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1: Introduction: Making Sense of the Contemporary Firm  and Prefiguring Its Future by Paul DiMaggio 3  PART ONE: Portraits From Three Regions 31  CHAPTER 2: The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise by Walter W. Powell 33  CHAPTER 3: Ambiguous Assets for Uncerta in Environments: Heterarchy in Postsocialist Firms by David Stark 69  CHAPTER 4: Japanese Enterprise Faces the Twenty-First Century by D. Eleano Westney 105  PART TWO: Commentaries 145  CHAPTER 5: The Durability of the Corporate Form by Reinier Kraakman 147  CHAPTER 6: The Future of the Firm from an Evolutionary Perspective by David J. Bryce and Jitendra V. Singh 161  CHAPTER 7: Firms (and Other Relationships) by Robert Gibbons 186  CHAPTER 8: Welcome to the Seventeenth Century by Charles Tilly 200  CHAPTER 9: Conclusion: The Futures of Business Organization and Paradoxes of Change by Paul DiMaggio 10  References 45  Index 71","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403730526551,"sku":"9780691116310","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691116310.jpg?v=1730484378","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-twentyfirstcentury-firm-changing-economic-organization-in-international-perspective-9780691116310","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}