... globalization of the financial services industry. This book advocates the reformation of another creature of liberal capitalism, the large, limited liability joint stock company, some of the ... in the evolution of liberal capitalism. I will argue that, fortunately for liberal capitalism, the explosion in execu- tive pay is not a natural outcome of the system. It...
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... was unfortunate that the merits of this half-baked theory, that all that was needed to revive an ailing company was a “charismatic leader” and “change agent,” with a novel “mindset,” and a ... 10:01 108 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS The intimacy of the relationship between academics and consultants inevitably means that these two key groups in the management ideas val...
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... it. 9780230_230941_09_cha07.indd 131 09/09/2009 10:02 130 BUSINESS AT A CROSSROADS Part of the answer is that the fitness landscape of each firm is a crea- ture of the fitness landscapes of other firms. In the past, there ... project, is approaching some kind of completion. In barely a decade the dreams of the ancient librarians of Alexandria and Pergamon h...
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... means; a metamorphosis, a change of form or of character; an alteration of function or of nature. Something of the kind may occur eventually at companies that adopt the adaptive strategies advocated ... induced.” An important consequence of the idea of companies as portfolios of processes, was the death of what Ghoshal and Bartlett called the Russian doll m...
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... that the role of the leadership is most vital,” and that without the containment of such a purpose people will “simply go their own way and the organization rapidly becomes an adhocracy … the ... Cloke and Joan Goldsmith take that crucial step and advocate the election of CEOs by employees. They also advocate the replacement of hierarchies by what they call “hete...
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... manifestations of what Adam Smith and the French physiocrats saw as “natural economic laws” embedded in the logic of the human situation; of the need for shelter and suste- nance, of the wish ... between the company as a state, and the company as a people. In a company where the first approach is preferred by the leader (embodying the company as a state)...
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... ships assumed a humbler role as the servants of industry. States abandoned mercantilism and embraced the new capitalism when they realized that the real wealth of any nation was not its hoard of ... second an oar or a sail.” An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was an example, perhaps even the exemplar, of the literature of power. I...
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... project, is approaching some kind of completion. In barely a decade the dreams of the ancient librarians of Alexandria and Pergamon have been casually surpassed, and a digital Aleph has snapped into ... that the fitness landscape of each firm is a crea- ture of the fitness landscapes of other firms. In the past, there were only a few climbers and they were too far...
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