Greenwood, Date: 2002. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 2002. Greenwood ISBN 1567205259 9781567205251 [IN]

ABC-Clio, Incorporated , pp. 208 Index. Hardback. Used. ABC-Clio, Incorporated ISBN 1567205259 9781567205251 [US]

ABC-Clio, Incorporated 2002 HARDBACK New P 208 Index.

ISBN10: 1567205259, ISBN13: 9781567205251, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. A challenging, intensely pragmatic analysis of how Asian organizational management has changed after the Asian economic crisis, and of how a hybrid Western-Asian style is emerging that will profoundly affect Asia's role in the world economy. With much of the "Asian Miracle" destroyed and much of the Western world's awe for Asian ways of management dissipated, organizations there are changing with such speed that most of our knowledge about them is quickly outdated. Richter takes stock of East Asian management practices, as they are perceived so far, and he discusses the strategies that others propose to help Asian management redesign itself for the future--including a long-term agenda for change based on the cultural heritage of Confucianism. He analyzes the cultural underpinnings of Asian management practices, evaluates the influence of the Asian economic crisis on them, and discusses their potential for guiding Asian firms to a sustainable competitive advantage. He then provides examples of how Asian firms shape up their organizations and describes a short-term agenda to fix the weaknesses in Asian management, at least temporarily.Throughout, Richter avoids talk about "strategic management" as merely a theory: he adopts a broader definition that includes a value system to guide East Asian firms as they re-emerge and ...