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Regeneration of strategic organizations
(2010-03-21)
One way of increasing the social responsiveness of OB, especially in the Third World, is to increase its contribution to the effectiveness of strategic organizations, that is, organizations set up to, or desiring to, achieve ...
Management in our backyard
(2010-03-20)
The paper describes the tentative conclusions from interviews with a variety of individuals with respect to indigenous modes of management and also from the study of the annual reports of about 200 companies. Evidence ...
Strategic developmental organizations: some behavioural properties
(2010-07-27)
OB research in the Third World has not been sufficiently socially responsive. It can make amends by fing on the organizational behaviour of strategic developmental organizations. The latter are organizations that have or ...
Revitalizing the State: 5. slimming the state for effectiveness
(2010-03-31)
Beginning with the eighties there has been a growing perception, in developed and developing countries alike, that the modern state has extended itself beyond its governance capacity. In many countries the state is perceived ...
Revitalizing the state: 1. models of the modern state
(2010-07-26)
In this paper the complexity of the modern state is examined with reference to the pressures under which it operates, and the mechanisms it employs of differentiation and integration. The reasons for the very large increase ...
Revitalizing the State: 3. fragmenting the state for innovation
(2010-07-26)
Organizational research indicates that large organizations involved in many different activities can counteract the diseconomies of size and complexity, tendency to bureaucratization, and to increasing resistance to ...
Mediating influence of top management styles on the relaitonship between external environment and Organisational structure: tests of some hypotheses
(2010-03-25)
Three styles of top management, labelled entrepreneurial, professional, and conservative, were empirically derived from cluster analysis of policies and practices data from a sample of companies. Eleven hypotheses were ...
Revitalizing the state 4. reinventing the democratic state
(2010-07-26)
Although democracy evolved in the West, in this century it has been adopted by scores of developing societies, with several relapses to despotism and recoveries from it. The most common form of democracy is liberal democracy, ...
Revitalizing the State: 2. resharing the bureaucracy
(2010-07-26)
In Virtually any king of modern state, there is a huge role for the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is intended to be a rational system of administration. But it is prone to many bureaupathologies, and increasing size tends ...
Revitalizing the state: 7. options for India
(2010-04-03)
Successful experiments in governance the world over suggest a number of options for revitalizing the Indian state. Several options are first considered for revamping the political system. These include options for achieving ...