Inside IBM - James W. Cortada

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Résumé :
Preface
Introduction
1. From Theories of Corporate Cultures to the Realities of Life inside a Global Enterprise
Part I. Cases from The Larger Picture of IBM?s Corporate Culture
2. Role of Ethics in Corporate Culture: Enduring Beliefs at IBM
3. ?The IBM Way?: Creating and Sustaining a Corporate Image and Reputation
4. Developing Managers in a Multinational Corporation
5. How IBM Prevented Unionization of its American Workforce
6. Corporate Benefits in Boom Periods: IBM?s American Experience
7. Managing A Nearly Invisible Corporate Community: ?IBM Families?
Part II: Cases from IBM?s Material Culture
8. From Lapel Pins to Coffee Cups: Links Between Corporate and Material Culture
9. Role of Postcards in Supporting IBM?s Image, Marketing, and Information Ecosystem
10. Humor and Corporate Culture: IBM, Cartoons and the Good Laugh
11. Gray Literature in IBM?s Information Ecosystem
Part III: How IBM?s Culture Went Global and Endured
12. The Essential Strategy for Corporate Success
Author?s Note: In the Spirit of Transparency
Notes
Index...

Biographie:
James W. Cortada is a senior research fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesot?Twin Cities. He spent nearly forty years at IBM in various sales, consulting, management, and executive positions. His many books include IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (2019) and Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments, and Business (2023).

Sommaire:
James W. Cortada is a senior research fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesot?Twin Cities. He spent nearly forty years at IBM in various sales, consulting, management, and executive positions. His many books include IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (2019) and Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments, and Business (2023)....