1st Edition

The Communitarian Organization Preserving Cultural Integrity in the Transnational Economy

By JoAnn M. Foster Copyright 1998
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1999. Emerging from profound political change in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, and coupled with a proliferation of market economies and technological and commercial interpenetrations of formerly closed societies, the international system has become an interdependent global milieu. This study seeks to examine the clear correlation between the present predicament of transnational firms as strangers in an alien land, and the communitarian assumptions regarding individuals in societies. Until now little attention has been paid to the utility of the communitarian ethic in addressing the cultural conundrums which arise out of the economic and political affinities and antagonism of globalization.

    Chapter I DEMOCRATIZATION AND COMPLEX INTERDEPENDENCE Chapter II CULTURE, ECONOMICS, AND CORPORATE BEHAVIOR Chapter III THE INDIVIDUALIST MODEL: AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Chapter IV THE ORGANIC MODEL: THE JAPANESE ORGANIZATIONAL PARADIGM Chapter V THE COMMUNITARIAN PARADIGM Chapter VI GLOBAL CHANGE, CULTURAL CHALLENGE, AND THE COMMUNITARIAN RESPONSE

    Biography

    JoAnn McDonald Foster