Organizational Strategy and Technological Adaptation to Global Change

Introduction SECTION 1: AN OVERVIEW OF KEY ISSUES IN GLOBAL CHANGE An Industrialist's View of Global Change; B. Reid The Changing Business Scene in Pacific Asia; G. Redding The Changing Business Scene in Central and Eastern Europe; L. Hethy SECTION 2: STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE Dinosaurs versus Dragons: Should Strategic Management Theory Redirect its Focus to the East?; D.F. Channon Global Strategy and Repeated Games; R. Matthews Winners and Losers in the West: Ranking by Adjustment Capacity; R. Brown Restructuring Strategies: Global Pressures, Local Responses; I. Taplin & J. Winterton SECTION 3: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND GLOBAL CHANGE Setting Standards: Strategies for Building Global Business Systems; R. Kaye & S. Little The Appropriate Policies for a Successful International Technology Transfer to Less Developed Countries; R. Salami & L.P. Reavill Technological Change: the Impact of Different Cultures, Institutional Frameworks and Organizational Imperatives; R.L. Ritchie, L. Zhuang, R. Hudson-Davies & W. Williams SECTION 4: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Privatization, Shareholding and Efficiency Arguments; A. Kuznetsov & O. Kuznetsov Enhancing Global Learning and Change in Multicultural Organizations through Valuing Diversity in Project Teams; P. Iles & P. Hayers Patterns of Change: How People in an East German Organization are Coping with the Transformation Process; T. Steger Aspects of the Transition to the Market Economy in the Czech Republic and Hungary; T. Lupton, G. Kauscek, E. Hrabitova & R. Thorpe