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The Changing Organization : Agency Theory in a Cross-Cultural Context.

Av: Medverkande: Materialtyp: TextUtgivningsuppgift: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2016Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (468 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316778043
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  • 305.3/501
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Case in Hand -- Reflections on the Crisis -- Structure of the Book -- Part I The Agency -- 1 The Cultural Agency -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Configuration Approach and the Socio-Cognitive Approach -- 1.3 Viable Living Systems and Cultural Agency -- 2 The Instrumental and Strategic Agencies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Two Views on Strategic Management -- Competitive Environment Market-Based View -- Resource-Based View -- 2.3 The Knowledge Management Paradigm -- 2.4 Complexity and Viable Systems -- 2.5 The Strategic Agency -- Modelling VSM within the Strategic Agency -- Understanding the Strategic Agency -- 2.6 Agency Pathology -- 2.7 Social Responsibility and Practice -- Corporate Social Responsibility as Strategy -- Corporate Social Responsibility -- Social Responsibility and the Strategic Agency -- 3 Agency Personality -- 3.1 Agency Minds -- 3.2 From Minds to Personalities -- 3.3 Agency Trait Theory and Maruyama Mindscapes -- 3.4 Intelligences and Efficacy Agency -- 4 The Intelligent Agency -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Theories of Intelligence -- 4.3 Organizational Intelligences -- 4.4 Agency Process Intelligences and Efficacy -- 4.5 Knowledge Strategy Agency Case -- 5 Agency Traits and Types -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Traits, Enantiomers, and Agency Types -- MBTI as Agency -- Boje's Foucauldian Personality Trait Types -- Agency Theory Traits Types -- Maruyama's Mindscapes as Agency Trait Types -- 5.3 Individualism and Collectivism -- 5.4 Some Thoughts -- 6 Agency Consciousness -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Undecidability and Generic System Hierarchies -- 6.3 Substructure Modelling -- The Instrumental Agency -- The Cultural/Cognitive-Affective Agency -- The Defining (Socio-Cultural) Agency.
6.4 Illustration of Superstructure Modelling -- 6.5 Internalization as Knowledge Migration -- 6.6 Generic System Hierarchy Generator -- 6.7 The Case of Negotiation and Agency Internalization -- The Construct -- A Theoretical Background to Eurozone Financial Policy -- Case Situation of Greece and Eurozone Negotiations -- Part II Agency Change -- 7 Joint Alliances -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 International Alliances in Central and Eastern Europe -- 7.3 Knowledge Management and Knowledge Transfer in a Cross-Cultural Context -- 7.4 Viable Knowledge Creation and Learning in International Alliances -- 7.5 Modelling Alliances -- 7.6 Application of the Model to a Case Study of the Czech Academic Link Project (CZALP) -- The CZALP Project: Phase 1 -- The CZALP Project: Phase 2 -- 7.7 Outcome -- 8 Agency Dynamics -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Kuhn, Piaget: From Paradigm Crisis to Transformation -- 8.3 Understanding Paradigms -- 8.4 Paradigms under Change -- 8.5 Transformation of Paradigms -- 8.6 Agency Life-Cycle -- 8.7 Baoshang Bank Case Study -- Background to Baoshang Bank -- The Issue -- Analysis and Conclusion -- 8.8 Conclusion -- Part III Agency as Society -- 9 The Sociological and Political Agencies -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Sociological Approach -- 9.3 Parsons -- 9.4 Luhmann -- 9.5 Habermas -- 9.6 Agency and Socio-Cultural Processes -- 9.7 The Political Agency -- 9.8 Luhmann, Habermas, Agency, and Practice -- Luhmann and the Military of Guatemala -- Reflection -- Habermas, Alienation, and Domination -- Reflection -- Cultural Agency Theory in Relation to Habermas and Luhmann -- 10 The Economic Agency -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Economics and Policy -- 10.3 Macroeconomic Modelling -- 10.4 Economic Agency -- 10.5 Traits, Policy, and Macroeconomics -- 10.6 Case Situation: The 2007/2008 European Recession and Mindscapes -- 10.7 Observations.
11 The Financial Agency, Society and Corruption -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Chinese Context -- 11.3 The Chinese Banking Industry -- 11.4 Finance and the Evolution in Chinese Banking -- 11.5 The Impact of Shadow Banking -- 11.6 Understanding Agency Issues and Corruption -- Transitive and Lateral Pathologies -- Autopathologies -- Corruption as an Illustration of Autopathology -- 11.7 Society, Development and Corruption -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sammanfattning: The book is designed for academics and graduate students in organization theory, social theory, cybernetics, cross-cultural theory and systems theory. It examines social collectives and organisation culture, presenting a theoretical framework capable of improving our understanding and anticipation of its patterns of behaviour.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Case in Hand -- Reflections on the Crisis -- Structure of the Book -- Part I The Agency -- 1 The Cultural Agency -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Configuration Approach and the Socio-Cognitive Approach -- 1.3 Viable Living Systems and Cultural Agency -- 2 The Instrumental and Strategic Agencies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Two Views on Strategic Management -- Competitive Environment Market-Based View -- Resource-Based View -- 2.3 The Knowledge Management Paradigm -- 2.4 Complexity and Viable Systems -- 2.5 The Strategic Agency -- Modelling VSM within the Strategic Agency -- Understanding the Strategic Agency -- 2.6 Agency Pathology -- 2.7 Social Responsibility and Practice -- Corporate Social Responsibility as Strategy -- Corporate Social Responsibility -- Social Responsibility and the Strategic Agency -- 3 Agency Personality -- 3.1 Agency Minds -- 3.2 From Minds to Personalities -- 3.3 Agency Trait Theory and Maruyama Mindscapes -- 3.4 Intelligences and Efficacy Agency -- 4 The Intelligent Agency -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Theories of Intelligence -- 4.3 Organizational Intelligences -- 4.4 Agency Process Intelligences and Efficacy -- 4.5 Knowledge Strategy Agency Case -- 5 Agency Traits and Types -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Traits, Enantiomers, and Agency Types -- MBTI as Agency -- Boje's Foucauldian Personality Trait Types -- Agency Theory Traits Types -- Maruyama's Mindscapes as Agency Trait Types -- 5.3 Individualism and Collectivism -- 5.4 Some Thoughts -- 6 Agency Consciousness -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Undecidability and Generic System Hierarchies -- 6.3 Substructure Modelling -- The Instrumental Agency -- The Cultural/Cognitive-Affective Agency -- The Defining (Socio-Cultural) Agency.

6.4 Illustration of Superstructure Modelling -- 6.5 Internalization as Knowledge Migration -- 6.6 Generic System Hierarchy Generator -- 6.7 The Case of Negotiation and Agency Internalization -- The Construct -- A Theoretical Background to Eurozone Financial Policy -- Case Situation of Greece and Eurozone Negotiations -- Part II Agency Change -- 7 Joint Alliances -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 International Alliances in Central and Eastern Europe -- 7.3 Knowledge Management and Knowledge Transfer in a Cross-Cultural Context -- 7.4 Viable Knowledge Creation and Learning in International Alliances -- 7.5 Modelling Alliances -- 7.6 Application of the Model to a Case Study of the Czech Academic Link Project (CZALP) -- The CZALP Project: Phase 1 -- The CZALP Project: Phase 2 -- 7.7 Outcome -- 8 Agency Dynamics -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Kuhn, Piaget: From Paradigm Crisis to Transformation -- 8.3 Understanding Paradigms -- 8.4 Paradigms under Change -- 8.5 Transformation of Paradigms -- 8.6 Agency Life-Cycle -- 8.7 Baoshang Bank Case Study -- Background to Baoshang Bank -- The Issue -- Analysis and Conclusion -- 8.8 Conclusion -- Part III Agency as Society -- 9 The Sociological and Political Agencies -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Sociological Approach -- 9.3 Parsons -- 9.4 Luhmann -- 9.5 Habermas -- 9.6 Agency and Socio-Cultural Processes -- 9.7 The Political Agency -- 9.8 Luhmann, Habermas, Agency, and Practice -- Luhmann and the Military of Guatemala -- Reflection -- Habermas, Alienation, and Domination -- Reflection -- Cultural Agency Theory in Relation to Habermas and Luhmann -- 10 The Economic Agency -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Economics and Policy -- 10.3 Macroeconomic Modelling -- 10.4 Economic Agency -- 10.5 Traits, Policy, and Macroeconomics -- 10.6 Case Situation: The 2007/2008 European Recession and Mindscapes -- 10.7 Observations.

11 The Financial Agency, Society and Corruption -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Chinese Context -- 11.3 The Chinese Banking Industry -- 11.4 Finance and the Evolution in Chinese Banking -- 11.5 The Impact of Shadow Banking -- 11.6 Understanding Agency Issues and Corruption -- Transitive and Lateral Pathologies -- Autopathologies -- Corruption as an Illustration of Autopathology -- 11.7 Society, Development and Corruption -- Bibliography -- Index.

The book is designed for academics and graduate students in organization theory, social theory, cybernetics, cross-cultural theory and systems theory. It examines social collectives and organisation culture, presenting a theoretical framework capable of improving our understanding and anticipation of its patterns of behaviour.

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