- Item type
- Book
- Language
- anglais
- Pages
- x, 299 p.
- Publication year
- 1994
- Content notes
- PART I: INTRODUCTION --- 1. Introduction to European management systems --- 2. Towards the European businessphere --- 3. The European businessphere --- 4. Mapping the European terrain --- PART II: PRAGMATISM – EXPERIENTIAL --- 5. Free enterprise --- 6. Pragmatism in European management --- 7. The experiential manager --- PART III: RATIONALISM – PROFESSIONAL --- 8. Rationalism in European business --- 9. Function and structure --- 10. The rational European manager --- PART IV: WHOLISM – DEVELOPMENT --- 11. Closed and open systems --- 12. Differentiation and integration --- 13. The developmental manager --- PART V: HUMANISM – CONVIVIAL --- 14. The net and the quest --- 15. Artist and politician --- PART VI: CONCLUSIONS --- 17. A generic typology of cultures --- 18. Cultures and functions --- 19. Creating a European management system.
"Portrays the main European management styles and the philosophical, economic and social contexts in which business is undertaken. This work aims to provide a basis for a third force to compare and contrast with Japan and Europe".
PART I: INTRODUCTION --- 1. Introduction to European management systems --- 2. Towards the European businessphere --- 3. The European businessphere --- 4. Mapping the European terrain --- PART II: PRAGMATISM – EXPERIENTIAL --- 5. Free enterprise --- 6. Pragmatism in European management --- 7. The experiential manager --- PART III: RATIONALISM – PROFESSIONAL --- 8. Rationalism in European business --- 9. Function and structure --- 10. The rational European manager --- PART IV: WHOLISM – DEVELOPMENT --- 11. Closed and open systems --- 12. Differentiation and integration --- 13. The developmental manager --- PART V: HUMANISM – CONVIVIAL --- 14. The net and the quest --- 15. Artist and politician --- PART VI: CONCLUSIONS --- 17. A generic typology of cultures --- 18. Cultures and functions --- 19. Creating a European management system..
