Management Under Differing Value Systems

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Programme Committee -- Chairmen -- Discussants -- Part I. Fundamental Problems and the Epistemology of Value Research -- Fundamental Values of Western Democracies -- The Explanation of Values. Problems and Approaches -- Taking on Ayres. Values: On the Possibility of a Convergence Between Economic and Non-Economic Decision-Making -- Part II. Societal and Political Perspectives of Value Change -- Value Change in the Uncertain 1970's -- Social Change and the Political Culture of Problem-Posing in Advanced Industrial Societies : The Case of Canada -- Changing Values and the Politics of the Quality of Life -- Social Value Change and Economic Development: Idiosyncrasies and Non-Linearities -- Part III. Values, External Exchange Processes and the Employment Relationship -- A. Value Systems and External Exchange Processes -- Relationships Between Social Values, the Education System and the Structure and Performance of Labour Markets -- Social Organization and Changing Consumer Values -- Possibilities and Limits of Influencing Consumer Behavior -- B. Industrial Relations -- Theoretical Dilemmas and Value Analysis in Comparative Industrial Relations -- Price, Power, Social Justice and Other Union Values -- A Theory of Employer Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Trade Unions in Western Europe and North America -- The Nonwage Impact of Unions -- The German Model of Codetermination: Programmatic Perspectives, Confrontative Issues and Prospective Developments -- C. Industrial Democracy and Quality of Worklife -- The Co-Determination and Quality of Work Life Movements Compared -- Management and Quality of Worklife: A Clash of Values? -- D. Social and Economic Rationale of Organization-Internal Labour Markets -- Bridges Over Contested Terrain: Exploring the Radical Account of the Employment Relationship -- The Employment Relationship as a Form of Socio-Economic Exchange -- Divergence and Convergence in Industrial Organizations: The Japanese Case

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dorow ist ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre, inbesondere Unternehmensplanung, Organisation und Personalwesen an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.