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Relations of Complex Organizational Systems

A Key to Global Competitivity. Problems — Strategies — Visions

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  1. Sabine Urban

    1. Strasburg University (Robert Schuman), USA
      CESAG (Centre of Managerial Research)/I.E.C.S., USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-14
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  2. Introduction

    • Sabine Urban
    Pages 15-19

  3. Inter-Firm Cooperation Networks: A Historical Perspective

    • Diane Poulin, Elie V. Chrysostome, Zhan Su
    Pages 21-58

  4. Relationship Games: Creating Competitive Advantage Through Cooperation

    • Pervez N. Ghauri
    Pages 59-84

  5. Changing Complex Organizational Systems: The Pull Between Fundamentals and Trivia

    • Taïeb Hafsi
    Pages 85-114

  6. The Passage from Fordism to Toyotism in European Sub-Contracting: Towards a New Model of Relationship?

    • Marc Ingham, Henry Houben
    Pages 115-142

  7. The Role of Computer Scientists within Organisations. Technicians or Agents of Change?

    • Roland Lesuisse
    Pages 143-169

  8. Management of Relationships: The Importance of the Intangible Factors

    • Hans Georg Gemünden
    Pages 171-199

  9. EMU: Between Coordination and Conflict

    • Marina Ricciardelli
    Pages 201-226

  10. Emissions Trading: The Creation of a Global Policy Instrument

    • Hanns A. Abele
    Pages 227-249

  11. The Internationalization of Italian Industrial Firms: Towards New Partnerships

    • Giovanni Palmerio
    Pages 251-278

  12. Public and Commonweal Enterprises in Germany

    • Peter Eichhorn
    Pages 279-295

  13. The Ownership Structure of Large German Corporations: Towards an Increasing Denationalization?

    • Johann Engelhard, Stefan Eckert
    Pages 297-343

  14. The Role of Law and Trust in the Governance of Financial Institutions

    • Jim Stewart
    Pages 345-363
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About this book

In times of turbulence and uncertainty it is pertinent to question more intensely the sources of performance and competitiveness of organizations as well as on a micro- or macro-economic level. Individual organizations are moving into networks and complex systems of actors and institutions. So it is the relationship among the players that has grown in importance, resulting in the concept of global competitivity, surpassing the vision of individual interests. Thus new problems of managing these relationships are born, particularly in terms of :

· coordination of initiatives,
· difficulties in adapting to change in a complex context,
· learning and the sharing of knowledge, know-how and experience,
· redefinition of the respective role of the institutions (their mission and area of responsability),
· organizational governance, i.e., the system by which organizations are directed and controlled.

Twelve authors examine these questions both from a theoretical angle - highlighting the renewal of critical thinking - and from that of a multi-faceted reality which is increasingly shaken by the globalization of socio-economic life.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Strasburg University (Robert Schuman), USA

    Sabine Urban

  • CESAG (Centre of Managerial Research)/I.E.C.S., USA

    Sabine Urban

About the editor

Die Herausgeberin
Sabine Urban ist Professorin an der Université Robert Schuman und Leiterin des Centre d´Etude des Sciences Appliquées à la Gestion/IECS in Straßburg.
Die Autoren
sind renommierte Experten aus der Wissenschaft.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Relations of Complex Organizational Systems

  • Book Subtitle: A Key to Global Competitivity. Problems — Strategies — Visions

  • Editors: Sabine Urban

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-96437-3

  • Publisher: Gabler Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-409-11487-5Published: 29 July 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-96437-3Published: 03 September 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 363

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business and Management, general

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