Comparative Management V2

1. Limits to participative leadership: task, structure and skill as contingencies—a German-British comparison
2. Organization and managerial roles in British and West German companies: an examination of the culture-free thesis
3. Societal differences in organizing manufacturing units: a comparison of France, West Germany and Great Britain
4. Implanted decision-making: American-owned firms in Britain
5. The Japanisation of British industry?
6. Industrial reorganization in Europe: patterns of convergence and divergence in Germany, France and Britain
7. Markets and managers
8. The Europeanization of manufacturing and the decentralization of bargaining: multinational management strategies in the European automobile industry
9. Management development in Europe: a study in cultural contrast
10. Human resource management in transitional economies: the case of Poland and the Czech Republic

Topics addressed in this book range from leadership to human resource management as the papers discuss the impact of cultural, institutional and societal variables across countries.