1st Edition
The Enterprise and its Environment A system theory of management organization
Edited By A. L. Rice
Copyright 1963
384 Pages
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Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in... Read more
1: Introduction; 1: The Consultant Role; 2: Concepts and Assumptions 8; 2: The Continuous and Controlled Assimilation of Change; 3: A Summary of Important Events From 1953 to 1956; 4: Three Experiments in Reorganization; 5: The Second Reorganization of Management; 6: The Transfer of Power; 7: The Board of Management Experiment 22; 8: The Board of Management Reconstituted; 9: Management Prepares for Further Expansion; 10: The Results of Eight Years of Reorganization; 3: The Initiation and Implementation of Change; 11: Prelude to Change; 12: Strategic Organization; 13: Sarabhai Chemicals; 14: The Separation of Sarabhai Chemicals and Sarabhai Industries; 15: The Operating and Managing Systems of the New Sarabhai Chemicals; 16: Sarabhai Industries; 17: Preparation for Implementation; 18: Implementation; 19: The Differentiation is Pushed Through; 4: The Living Organization; 20: A System Theory of Organization; 21: The Primary Task; 22: Fitting the Organization to the Task; 23: Demands on Enterprise Leadership; 24: Managing Systems; 25: Some Problems of Delegation 53; 26: Organizational Flexibility; 27: Human Needs and Enterprise Objectives; 28: The Management of Change; 29: Conclusion
Biography
A. L. Rice
