The European corporation
Subtitle: strategy, structure, and social science
By: Richard Whittington and Michael Mayer.
Contributors: Mayer, Michael, 1965-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Chandler, Alfred Dupont; Corporations -- Europe; Business planning -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Change, Context, and the Corporation; title: 1.1 Changing strategies and structures; title: 1.2 The corporation in context; title: 1.3 Researching strategy and structure in Europe; title: 1.4 Programme and proposal; title: 2 Chandler and Context; title: 2.1 Contextualizing Chandlerism; title: 2.2 Postmodernism and context; title: 2.3 Between Chandlerism and contextualism; title: 2.4 Summary; title: 3 Scale, Scope, and Structure; title: 3.1 Scale; title: 3.2 Scope; title: 3.3 Explaining scope; title: 3.4 Divisionalization and beyond; title: 3.5 Summary; title: 4 Corporate Careers and Control; title: 4.1 Financial systems and corporate ownership; title: 4.2 Managerial control; title: 4.3 Management development; title: 4.4 Summary; title: 5 Changing Strategies; title: 5.1 Measuring strategy; title: 5.2 Strategy trends and transitions; title: 5.3 Cross-national comparisons; title: 5.4 Strategy and performance; title: 5.5 Summary; title: 6 Changing Structures; title: 6.1 Measuring structure; title: 6.2 National context and organizational structure; title: 6.3 The network multidivisional; title: 6.4 Structure and performance :; title: 6.5 Summary; title: 7 Strategy, Structure, and Politics; title: 7.1 The politics of strategy and structure; title: 7.2 Ownership and strategy; title: 7.3 Ownership and structure; title: 7.4 Summary; title: 8 Concluding for the Corporation; title: 8.1 The Chandlerian model renewed; title: 8.2 Strategy, structure, and nations; title: 8.3 The science of the corporation; title: Appendix I: Strategic and Structural Classification of French,; title: German, and United Kingdom Firms; title: Appendix II: Methodology; title: References; title: Index.