William J. Cook

Evolving Corporation

A Humanist Interpretation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The corporation model of organizations is in terminal decline, says Cook, and is being displaced by what he calls syntagma, a body of persons forming a division of the population of a country. The point he makes by this is that the emerging organization will be no artifact, no fabrication. It will be innately human, and in that sense, organic. His book traces the philosophical and historical development of the modern corporation through Hellenistic-Judeo-Christian theologies, with particular emphases on the social, political, and economic impacts of rationalistic science, impacts such as humanism, democracy, capitalism, and behaviorism. Cook offers an analysis of the critical aspects of the corporation as it exists today, and draws heavily for evidence upon contemporary management theories and practices. In doing so he argues that it is the radical changes going on in society itself that is rendering the traditional corporation obsolete. And, since western civilization is undergoing an epochal shift, the new, emerging corporation can have no resemblance to the old model. He maintains that the organization evolving to replace it will be characterized by common values, mutual purpose, excess capacity, and creative action, and will have two dynamics, what he calls commensuration and essentiality. Only with this kind of human system is it possible to create an organization that solely and exclusively serves the common good. His book is a provocative contribution to the professional and academic literature of several fields, including management, the social sciences, organizational behavior, development, and history, and will be of particular interest as well to certain well informed nonspecialists with concern for the role played the corporation in their societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9781567202793
• ISBN-10: 1567202799
• Artikelnr.: 21152451

Autorenporträt

William J. Cook

Inhaltsangabe

At Last Report Introduction The Dualing Philosophies The Dual Ancestry The
Corporation's World A Kingdom Divided The Corporation and Hierarchy The
Corporation of Rank Order and Position The Corporation and Obedience The
Corporation and Isolation The Corporation's Isolation and Depersonalization
The Corporation and Communion The Corporation and the Science of Management
Old Skins and New Wine The World of the Corporation--Its Religion The
Making of Gods The Making of Kings The Making of The God-King Organization
The World of the Corporation--Its Science The Myths of Western Civilization
The Assertion of Reason The Assertion of Humanism The Assertion of
Democracy Democracy and Organization The Making of Capitalism Capitalism
and the Corporation The Assertion of Behaviorism Behaviorism and the Nature
of the Person Behaviorism and the Nature of Human Reality Behaviorism and
the Nature of Human Capacity The Emerging Organization The Passing of Old
Orders The Decline of Rationalism The Decline of Materialistic Humanism The
Decline of Democracy The Decline of Capitalism The Decline of Behaviorism
Aspects of the New Society Words, Meanings, and Systems Explorations and
Discovery The Dimensions of Syntagma The Dynamics of Syntagma