Evolving Corporation - William J. Cook

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Auteur(s) : William J. Cook

Editeur : Praeger

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2000

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 352

Expédition : 695

Dimensions : 24.0 x 16.1 x 2.3

ISBN : 9781567202793

Résumé :

At Last Report
Introduction
The Dualing Philosophies
The Dual Ancestry
The Corporation's World
A Kingdom Divided
The Corporation and Hierarchy
The Corporation of Rank Order and Position
The Corporation and Obedience
The Corporation and Isolation
The Corporation's Isolation and Depersonalization
The Corporation and Communion
The Corporation and the Science of Management
Old Skins and New Wine
The World of the Corporation--Its Religion
The Making of Gods
The Making of Kings
The Making of The God-King Organization
The World of the Corporation--Its Science
The Myths of Western Civilization
The Assertion of Reason
The Assertion of Humanism
The Assertion of Democracy
Democracy and Organization
The Making of Capitalism
Capitalism and the Corporation
The Assertion of Behaviorism
Behaviorism and the Nature of the Person
Behaviorism and the Nature of Human Reality
Behaviorism and the Nature of Human Capacity
The Emerging Organization
The Passing of Old Orders
The Decline of Rationalism
The Decline of Materialistic Humanism
The Decline of Democracy
The Decline of Capitalism
The Decline of Behaviorism
Aspects of the New Society
Words, Meanings, and Systems
Explorations and Discovery
The Dimensions of Syntagma
The Dynamics of Syntagma

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Biographie:
WILLIAM J. COOK, JR., is founder and chief executive officer of The Colonial Cambridge Group, a consulting firm in Montgomery, Alabama, that specializes in strategic planning, design, and organization throughout the public and private sectors./e Dr. Cook is the author of several other books and numerous articles, and has had his own daily radio commentary broadcast to more than 70 cities throughout the Southeast....

Sommaire:
The corporation model of organizations is in terminal decline, says Cook, and is being displaced by what he calls syntagma, a body of persons forming a division of the population of a country. The point he makes by this is that the emerging organization will be no artifact, no fabrication. It will be innately human, and in that sense, organic. His book traces the philosophical and historical development of the modern corporation through Hellenistic-Judeo-Christian theologies, with particular emphases on the social, political, and economic impacts of rationalistic science, impacts such as humanism, democracy, capitalism, and behaviorism. Cook offers an analysis of the critical aspects of the corporation as it exists today, and draws heavily for evidence upon contemporary management theories and practices. In doing so he argues that it is the radical changes going on in society itself that is rendering the traditional corporation obsolete. And, since western civilization is undergoing an epochal shift, the new, emerging corporation can have no resemblance to the old model. He maintains that the organization evolving to replace it will be characterized by common values, mutual purpose, excess capacity, and creative action, and will have two dynamics, what he calls commensuration and essentiality. Only with this kind of human system is it possible to create an organization that solely and exclusively serves the common good. His book is a provocative contribution to the professional and academic literature of several fields, including management, the social sciences, organizational behavior, development, and history, and will be of particular interest as well to certain well informed nonspecialists with concern for the role played the corporation in their societies....