The Cultural Crisis of the Firm

This is an examination of one of the most puzzling and important issues in western economic analysis - corporate inertia in the face of known threats to survival. The book is part synthetic, part based on intensive case studies, and part theoretical.

Acknowledgements. Part I. Competition, Time, and Space. 1. The End of an Industrial Era. 2. Competition, Time, and Space in Industrial Change. 3. The New Competition and the Recalibration of Time and Space. 4. The Sources of Industrial Rigidity. Part II. Corporate Culture, Strategy, and Change. 5. Corporate Culture and Strategy. 6. Culture, Identity, and Corporate Transformations: case Studies. Part III. The Cultural Crisis of the Firm. The Cultural Crisis of the Firm. Bibliography. Index