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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Asia-Pacific Economy -- Chapter 2: Singapore -- Chapter 3: Korea -- Chapter 4: Taiwan -- Chapter 5: Hong Kong -- Chapter 6: Labour and Industry in East Asia -- References -- Index -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements / Masuch, Michael -- Contents -- Introduction. Expert Systems and Organizations / Masuch, Michael -- Chapter 2. Devising Expert Systems in Organization Theory: The Organizational Consultant / Baligh, Helmy H. / Burton, Richard M. / Obel, Børge -- Chapter 3. Creating an Expert System to Design Organizations: DESIGN 6 / Baligh, Helmy H. / Burton, Richard M. / Obel, Børge -- Chapter 4. Formalizing Organizational Theory: A Knowledge-Based Approach / Glorie, Josh C. / Masuch, Michael / Marx, Maarten -- Chapter 5. Building an Artificial Intelligence Model of Management Policy Making: A Tool for Exploring Organizational Issues / Hall, Roger I. -- Chapter 6. Expert Systems Supporting Organization and Information Management / Gazendam, Henk W.M. -- Chapter 7. Environmental and Organizational Interactions in the Design of Knowledge Based Systems: The METAL Case / Hatchuel, Armand / Weil, Benoît -- Chapter 8. Casting Managerial Skills into a Knowledge Based System / Peterson, Tim O. / Fleet, David D. Van -- Chapter 9. A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Expert Systems / Daniels, H.A.M. / Horst, P. van der -- Chapter 10. An Overview of Expert System Principles / Gaag, Linda van der / Lucas, Peter -- About the Authors -- References -- Systematic index -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Table A (List of Committee Members) -- Table B (List of Speakers) -- Table C (Commentators' List) -- Part I. Innovation under Japanese Management -- Innovation and the Japanese Management System -- The Japanese Corporate System and Technology Accumulation -- Dynamic Synergy and Top Management Leadership: Strategie Innovation in Japanese Companies -- A Comparative Evolutionary Perspective on Strategy-Making: Advantages and Limitations of the Japanese Approach -- Novel Product Concepts from Lead Users -- Part II. Process of Innovation -- Factors Affecting the Creativity of Organizations - An Approach from the Analysis of New Product Development -- Technology Bunching and Industrial Strategies -- Part III. Innovation and Organizational Change -- Strategy Making as Craft -- Management of Change in the Firm - Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence -- Restructuring Mature Industries: The Challenge for Europe -- On the Inter-Relation Between Large and Small Enterprises in a Socialist Economy: The Case of the GDR -- Part IV. Impact of Information Technology and Micro-Electronics -- Information Technology and Organization -- High Technology and Its Impact on Business Management -- Adapting Organizations to Micro-Electronics - and Micro-Electronics to Organizations: Experiences in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Technology, Innovation and Labour-Management Strategies -- Research Note -- Development of the Studies of Socialist Enterprise in Japan and "Innovation" of the Socialist Enterprise -- The Authors -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I Introduction -- 1 Development in the Asia Pacific: Problems and Prospects -- 2 Whither Eurasia: European Wind or Pacific Wind? -- Chapter II Changes in Economic Policy -- Introduction -- 3 Internationalizing Australia: The Public Policy of Economic Development in the Southern Pacific Rim -- 4 Japan's Role in Pacific Rim Economic Cooperation: A Note of Caution -- 5 New U.S. Trade Politics and the Pacific Rim Nations -- 6 The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on U.S. State Governments: An Examination of Japan and Pacific Rim Countries -- Chapter III Environment and Sustainable Development -- Introduction -- 7 Environmental Policy-making in New Zealand: Global Images and Local Realities -- 8 Enabling Policies for Sustainable Development -- 9 Environmental Problem Solving and Policy Innovation: An Analysis of Japanese Cases1 -- Chapter IV Technology Policy and Development -- Introduction -- 10 U.S. Policy Responses to Pacific Rim Competition in High Technology -- 11 The Application of Science and Technology in Agricultural Development in China -- Chapter V Social Policy and Development -- Introduction -- 12 Immigration from the Pacific Rim: U.S. Policy on Economic Activities, Housing, and Location -- 13 Urban Development Policy: An Evaluation of the Seoul Housing Redevelopment Project -- 14 A Land Policy Reform in Korea: Introducing a Progressive Land Tax -- 15 The Family Planning Policy in Malaysia: Its Strategies and Impact -- Chapter VI Labor and Industrial Policy -- Introduction -- 16 Dynamics and Issues of Korean Labor Policy -- 17 Labor Policy in China: Past, Present, and Future -- 18 Integrating Civil and Military Production in China: Program and Policy -- 19 Metapolicy-making in a Turbulent Environment: The Case of Hong Kong -- Chapter VII Policy-making Capability and Development -- Introduction -- 20 Japan's Changing Policy Capability: Causes and Potential Consequences -- 21 Policy Inconsistency and the Paradox of Democratization in Korea -- 22 Political Consequences of Rapid Economic Development in Singapore -- Chapter VIII Understanding Comparative Policy-making -- Introduction -- 23 Interpretive Policy Analysis: Notes Toward a Theory -- 24 Bureaucratic Policy-making in Japan: Role and Function of Deliberation Councils -- 25 Policy Formulation and Implementation in China: Issues and Implications -- 26 Think Tanks and Inter-agency Policy-making in Australia: "Washminster" or "Westington"? -- Contributors -- Subject Index

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to Human Resource Systems -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction and Theoretical Rationale -- HRM in Selected Pacific Rim Countries -- Human Resource Management in Australia -- Human Resource Management in Canada -- Human Resource Management in Hong Kong -- The Japanese Human Resource Management System: A Learning Bureaucracy -- Human Resource Management in New Zealand -- Human Resource Management in the People's Republic of China -- Human Resource Management in South Korea -- Human Resource Management Practices in Singapore -- Human Resource Management in Taiwan, The Republic of China -- Human Resource Management in Thailand -- Human Resource Management in the United States -- Conclusion -- Human Resource Management on the Pacific Rim: An Integration -- About the Contributors

The reader provides an insight into the importance of the organizational and cultural aspects of cross-national mergers and acquisitions.

How are new sciences and technologies created, coordinated and managed? The case studies in this volume show that technologies are the contingent result of complex processes: social negotiation and coordination between the actors (firms, government agencies, engineers) and planners.

The goal of this work was to use these cross-national comparisons to betterunderstand how human resource policies operate to affect firm performance,not as individual practices, but as bundles of interacting practices thathave positive effects on both productivity and the quality of life of workers.

The text presents inquiries into the contemporary world economy, namely: the economic success of East Asia; political and organizational restructuring in Western, industrial countries; and the post-communist transformation process in former centrally planned economies.

A comprehensive text book with international contributions on the ethnical, legal, and cultural implications of the management of multinational corporations.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Europe -- Chapter 2: Belgium -- Chapter 3: Denmark -- Chapter 4: England -- Chapter 5: France -- Chapter 6: Germany -- Chapter 7: Greece -- Chapter 8: Ireland -- Chapter 9: Italy -- Chapter 10: The Netherlands -- Chapter 11: Portugal -- Chapter 12: Spain -- Chapter 13: Sweden -- Chapter 14: Many More Ways Than One -- Notes on Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction / Pieper, Rüdiger -- Human Resource Management and Corporate Strategy / Staehle, Wolfgang H. -- Part I. Human Resource Management in the Western World -- Human Resource Management in the U.S.- Celebration of its Centenary / Springer, Beverly / Springer, Stephen -- Human Resource Management in Italy / Hinterhuber, Hans H. / Stumpf, Monika -- Human Resource Management in France / Rojot, Jacques -- Human Resource Management in the Federal Republic of Germany / Conrad, Peter / Pieper, Rüdiger -- Part II. Key Problems of Human Resource Management in Socialist Countries -- Human Resource Management in Yugoslavia: Problems and Perspectives / Purg, Danica -- Human Resource Management in Czechoslovakia - Management Development as the Key Issue / Landa, Ondrej -- Human Resource Management in the German Democratic Republic: Problems of Availability and the Use of Manpower Potential in the Sphere of the High Qualification Spectrum in a Retrospective View / Meyer, Hansgünter -- Part III. Human Resource Management in Asian Countries -- Human Resource Management in China: Recent Trends / Zhong-Ming, Wang -- Human Resource Management in Japan / Takahashi, Yoshiaki -- Part IV. Human Resource Management and Multinational Companies -- Strategie Human Resource Management: A Global Perspective / Adler, Nancy J. / Ghadar, Faribarz -- Human Resource Management in Multinational and Internationally Operating Companies / Dülfer, Eberhard -- About the Authors -- Backmatter