Management of Innovation

Name: Management of Innovation
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ISBN: 9780198288770

ISBN-10: 0198288778

ISBN-13: 9780198288770

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: Tom Burns, G. M. Stalker

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First published in 1961, The Management of Innovation is a business classic: one of the most influential books about business organizations ever published. Challenging the received wisdom that there is "one best way" to manage, it sounded the death knell of classical management theory andprovided something lasting in its place: a way of looking at organizations that allowed for different contexts, different markets, and different rates of technological change. The book's famous typology of organizations as mechanistic vs. organic has proved timeless, as relevant today as more thanthirty years ago. This edition includes a new preface by Tom Burns that situates the work in its historical and…

Book details

List price: $59.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.75" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface to the Third Edition


Preface to the Second Edition


Introduction


The External Circumstances


The Organization of Innovation


The Development of the Electronics Industry, and the Scottish Council's Scheme


The Market Context


Organization and Change


Management Structures and Systems


Mechanistic and Organic Systems of Management


Working Organization, Political System, and Status Structure within the Concern


The Laboratory and the Workshop


Industrial Scientists and Managers: Problems of Power and of Status


Direction and the Shaping of Management Conduct


The Men at the Top


The Shaping of Work Relationships


Codes of Practice in Management Conduct


References


Index